Vardy has lost

[Viviennemary]

Yes. Good decision. I thought she might win. What a fiasco and waste of money

Clearly you don't understand legal
process very well . . .

Just saw the BBC news clip. It said that Colleen offered 4 times during the process to settle and stop the circus. Vardy refused.

Vardy had a top notch legal team - I can't imagine they didn't advise her this was a massive exercise in self harm.

she had an inkling but no proof you cant blame her for trolls and stupid idiots threatening vardy

You could use that argument about anything. Comparatively, everyone in the UK is way better off than most of the world but we ask for refunds, complain about service etc all the time.

So if you can feed yourself and have a roof, you can't complain about anything?

I'm thrilled Vardy lost. It would have felt a moral injustice if she had won.
I hope she stays out of the public eye forever more.

I do hope that Caroline Watt is being supported. While it's apparent she was complicit in the leaks, she couldn't have known the storm she would be swept up into. And I doubt she has the millions behind her that Vardy does to help make life more comfortable while she rebuilds herself.

This was pointed out a million times on the other threads but still gets ignored by sanctimonious idiots trying to prove how above all of this they are

@Fluffymule they did

I understand it very well @LetHimHaveIt and think that the legal personnel on her team would have done far better to maintain their professional reputation and withdraw themselves from the case altogether when she refused to negotiate the out of court settlement.

Good for Colleen, Vardy sounds vile. I don't know why vardy went ahead with suing Colleen when this would have been all forgotten about by now and not to mention she has to cough up £££££££. Stupid being.

The solicitors and barristers were instructed by Vardy on the matter and sometimes there's no advising stupid. You cannot refuse to take instructions, all you can do is give a structured legal opinion and if they wish to proceed on that basis that's what you do . . .

Smart of Colleen to use her press release to acknowledge the queasy cost of all this farrago at a time when people are struggling financially. I'd imagine any damages will be swiftly and loudly donated to charity.

Why? That's their job. If a client is stupid and won't take advice that's the client's problem not the legal professions 🙄

Which is which?

Glad Vardy lost, the judge’s summing up is quite brutal, they basically didn’t believe anything Vardy said. Rightly.

Coleen tried to settle multiple times, that is well documented. Vardy wouldn't settle so she had no choice but to defend herself in court.

Oh, don't talk rot. The fact that Rooney offered to settle four times suggests she and her legal team weren't quite as confident as, er, you, that she'd win: clearly, they didn't think her case was an 'absolute joke'. Indeed, Vardy won the first stage when it was made abundantly clear to Rooney that she'd fired her shot across the bows by identifying Vardy and Vardy alone as the source of the leak, and would have to now stand by that.

And the idea that Vardy's lawyers were worried about their 'professional reputation'! Hilarious. That's not what's meant by 'professionally embarrassed', ffs. They're defamation lawyers; they know the score. It's a shit-show. One person wins; the other loses. Not bad odds. They might well have wished Vardy was a more attractive character, but the hundreds of thousands she gave them will have gone some way to deodorise that stench . . .

@HastaLaBisto there are no damages, Rooney was the defendant. She’ll be awarded costs only.

Don't bamboozle her with logic. It's like having to start explaining the 'cab rank' rule to people at parties when they ask why you defend nonces . . . 🙄

I'm a lawyer and have had plenty of idiotic clients. You can't refuse to do your job just because your client is stupid. That's not how it works.

I’m right behind Colleen on this one.

Someone else wanted their day in the sun.

Someone else should probably accept the verdict and shut their beak henceforth.

I understand it very well @LetHimHaveIt and think that the legal personnel on her team would have done far better to maintain their professional reputation and withdraw themselves from the case altogether when she refused to negotiate the out of court settlement

how depressing is this, they really do walk among us!

How could she possibly have won? She sank herself as soon as she went into the witness box, and arguably before.

She lost the minute she opened her mouth.

But she apparently made several attempts to settle, it was Vardy who wouldn't. She couldn't force a settlement on her.

Why would she get damages? She was the one being sued.