Bank doubles offer to private investors and City institutions seeking damages over cash call months before government bailout
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Royal Bank of Scotland has made a last-ditch effort to avert a high-profile court case brought by thousands of investors who claim they were misled into buying the bank’s shares in the run-up to its taxpayer bailout.
The 11th-hour intervention came just hours before the case was due to start in the high court in London on Monday.