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The "Wagatha Christie" Coleen Rooney/ Rebekah Vardy court case
Iwantacatnotcovid · 08/02/2022 20:46
Pedallleur · 22/05/2022 14:32
It's the modern phenomena. Life by Social Media. It's interesting watching the legal system come to terms with it and there will prob be a whole section of law opening up on the subject altho Rooneys barrister was using law from 1722 to try the case.
Zippidy123 · 21/05/2022 05:42
The actions of the Vardys that the court case has brought to light (the texts about Danielle Lloyd's miscarriages, the previous article about Peter Andre, Colleen's sister, destruction of evidence, blaming the PR when Vardy clearly knew what was going on, leaking info about other football players, the statement they made outside court rather than under oath) has been far worse and more damaging than what Colleen originally accused her of. Talk about an own goal!!
burnoutbabe · 21/05/2022 16:01
i think it will be a win for Vardy but a £1 win. And both sides pay their own costs. Which is a shame for Colleen, having to foot legal bills but then posting something like that on Instragram was always bound to cause trouble and anybody she told pre posting could have told her to check with her legal team before she did anything. She clearly didn't bother.
if she had worded her post a bit differently, she could have claimed HONEST opinion, but as she claimed it was A FACT, could only use truth as a defence.
heyhi · 21/05/2022 07:05
Completely agree. RV must be thick if she thought this would be anything other than the train crash it has been for her. Not sure whether her legal team have a duty to have warned her about this.
Zippidy123 · 21/05/2022 05:42
The actions of the Vardys that the court case has brought to light (the texts about Danielle Lloyd's miscarriages, the previous article about Peter Andre, Colleen's sister, destruction of evidence, blaming the PR when Vardy clearly knew what was going on, leaking info about other football players, the statement they made outside court rather than under oath) has been far worse and more damaging than what Colleen originally accused her of. Talk about an own goal!!
Zippidy123 · 21/05/2022 05:42
The actions of the Vardys that the court case has brought to light (the texts about Danielle Lloyd's miscarriages, the previous article about Peter Andre, Colleen's sister, destruction of evidence, blaming the PR when Vardy clearly knew what was going on, leaking info about other football players, the statement they made outside court rather than under oath) has been far worse and more damaging than what Colleen originally accused her of. Talk about an own goal!!
WithAnXXHere · 20/05/2022 13:14
Surely Coleen offering to settle goes against Coleen as it suggest her guilt?
But yes, Coleen has won morally either way.
ImAvingOops · 20/05/2022 09:22
If I was CR I'd be glad that this case has gone ahead and that RV didn't settle because CR has come out of it looking as if she was right, irrespective of the legal result. In the court of public opinion (and to the people in RV's social circle) Vardy has been totally shown up to look both guilty and nasty. And she did it all to herself. If I was CR I'd be feeling vindicated
ImAvingOops · 20/05/2022 09:22
If I was CR I'd be glad that this case has gone ahead and that RV didn't settle because CR has come out of it looking as if she was right, irrespective of the legal result. In the court of public opinion (and to the people in RV's social circle) Vardy has been totally shown up to look both guilty and nasty. And she did it all to herself. If I was CR I'd be feeling vindicated
PortiaFimbriata · 20/05/2022 09:09
General rule is "loser pays the costs of both sides".
But the costs the winner can claim are usually discounted a bit (aka "taxed" for reasonability). And crucially if the respondent has made a reasonable offer of settlement and the claimant has refused it and the judge then awards lower damages then the claimant bears the costs of both sides from that moment on because they obviously should have accepted it and saved everyone's time and money.
What I don't know is how that applies to the current situation , where as I understand it CR offered a financial settlement but refused a public apology.
heyhi · 20/05/2022 08:59
Any predictions on what the likely outcome is here? Is it up to the judge to decide what award is made if RV wins? Who will be responsible for legal costs?
heyhi · 20/05/2022 08:59
Any predictions on what the likely outcome is here? Is it up to the judge to decide what award is made if RV wins? Who will be responsible for legal costs?
ImAvingOops · 20/05/2022 08:28
But if Vardy had said that it wasn't her but other do have access to her account, lots of people would have thought that was feasible because we all know that celebrities employ people to manage their accounts. And it would have avoided all those nasty texts becoming public and the dredging up of the Peter Andre story and all the other unsavoury things she's said and done.
If CR loses then she still saves total face by putting out a statement that it's impossible to prove a case with the evidence missing and no testimony from Watt. The public has had it laid out exactly how Vardy talks about people, her willingness to throw anyone under the bus, even using CR little sister. Rooney really can't lose.
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