Earlier this week, The (London) Times newspaper reported Jaguar Land Rover (a division of Tata Motors) had appointed bailiffs to raid the Dutch offices of BYD, on suspicion that the Chinese marque had copied the design of the Defender SUV. The raid, which reportedly occurred in August, centred around Jaguar Land Rover’s claims that the BYD Ti7 SUV had benefited from alleged reverse engineering of the technology in the Land Rover Defender. Despite BYD claiming it had attempted to cooperate with Jaguar Land Rover’s requests for information, the bailiffs were able to seize digital records from BYD’s Schiedam and Hoofddorp...