Break ‘The Code’ or break the bank

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TWO writers accusing Dan Brown of breaching their copyright in his best-selling book “The Da Vinci Code” could face a half-million pound legal bill if they lose the case, a leading media lawyer in London said. David Hooper, a partner at the London law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, said that Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh face a difficult task in persuading the high court that Brown went too far in using their 1982 non-fiction book “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” as a source for his novel.