The summer of 2020 will be remembered for many things: the slight lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown, a brief return to the office for City workers and, for those in finance, Amanda Staveley’s high-profile case against Barclays.

Staveley’s private equity firm PCP Capital, which made a £3.25bn investment on behalf of Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan during the Barclays’ emergency cash call in 2008, is suing the blue chip bank.