Phoenix Venture Holdings collapse of the company. The report, which was only concerned with dealing with the directors and their actions while MG-Rover Group was still trading, revealed that the five executives involved took £42m in pay and pensions from the troubled firm before it collapsed. The report also commented on the personal relationship between Nick Stephenson and Dr Qu Li, who was paid more than £1.6m in the 15-month period up to April 2005 for consultancy services. Additionally, fellow Director Peter Beale was accused of installing a software application, Evidence Eliminator, which may have destroyed documentation relevant to the investigation. The investigators
John Stephenson (judge) them, not only by proceedings for defamation against them but by threats and blackmail". In 1951, Stephenson married Rose Asquith, the younger daughter of Lord Asquith of Bishopstone, a Law Lord, and they had two sons and two daughters, Mary (1952), David Guy (1954), Laura Jane (1958) and Daniel Paul Stephenson (1960). At the time of his death in 1998 his address was given in "Who's Who" as 26 Doneraile Street, London SW6, and he was a member of the Hurlingham Club, the Marylebone Cricket Club, and the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. John Stephenson (judge) Sir John Frederick Eustace Stephenson