Barclays bosses wrote Amanda Staveley off as 'dolly bird', court told

Businesswoman is seeking 1.5bn from bank in high court action over 2bn Qatari loan

A high profile businesswoman suing Barclays for 1.5bn over the terms of an emergency cash call in 2008 was called a dolly bird" and a tart" by top bank executives according to documents presented to the high court on Thursday.

The terms used to describe Amanda Staveley were revealed in telephone transcripts allegedly detailing a conversation between Barclays' former investment banking chief Roger Jenkins and the bank's former head of European financial institutions division Richard Boath in October 2008.