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Very nice, that, but Lloyd's now faces a trial that threatens to expose its darkest doings. "Finally, Lloyd's is in the dock and will have to answer the tough questions it has been dodging for years," says former Name Clive Francis, a retired Royal Air Force pilot. How well Lloyd's responds to those questions could determine whether the institution that once was part of the very bedrock of Britannia has any future at all.