£1 damages award in WAG-gate - plausible?
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Dingu said:
What The Deuces said:
Dingu said:
What The Deuces said:
Rooney is the same age as Ronaldo
It’s fair to say Rooney pissed his talent away
What an odd opinion It’s fair to say Rooney pissed his talent away
Ravel Morrison pissed his talent away. Rooney? Not a chance. Could have been even better? Perhaps. That doesn’t equal pissing talent away.
You just don’t like him clearly.
As for the argument point. Why return to a forum if you don’t like debate?
Adrian E said:
Personally think Rooney will get the nod on this, but as has been reported the legal fees will far outweigh any costs order
Vardy has probably been advised her case is weak, but ‘thinks’ (a struggle, I suspect) she knows better and a nice suit will sway the court…..
I’m not sure, the onus is on Rooney to prove it was Vardy, all Vardy has to do is prove other people had access to her account at that time and it makes it almost impossible Vardy has probably been advised her case is weak, but ‘thinks’ (a struggle, I suspect) she knows better and a nice suit will sway the court…..
Dogwatch said:
Some time ago BV72 posted, I think on the Old Bentley thread, about clients who become obsessed about going to Court regardless. Quite opened my eyes to how some people deal with their problems, real or perceived.
Money. She admitted her friend had access to her account. So I'm really not sure what she is proving now, yes she didn't sell the stories herself, her friend who accessed her account did.Adjacent to the Royal Courts of Justice is Bell Yard. There used to be a legal bookshop there with a picture in the window of a cow. There was a man at the front pulling it one way, and a man at the rear pulling it the other. On a stool is a lawyer milking it.
They are taking the mickey as well as the milk in this one I think.
They are taking the mickey as well as the milk in this one I think.
Canon_Fodder said:
Yes I think that was clearly going to happen
Watt passed the info but Vardy was well aware
As soon as Watt's phone went into the North Sea it was all over
Surely Rooney was always going to win.Watt passed the info but Vardy was well aware
As soon as Watt's phone went into the North Sea it was all over
She blamed the leak from ‘Vardys Account’, not Vardy, and this was clearly the case.
Note - I’ve barely followed this story, so they’re maybe more to it. Honestly I’m not that interested.
Ham_and_Jam said:
Canon_Fodder said:
Yes I think that was clearly going to happen
Watt passed the info but Vardy was well aware
As soon as Watt's phone went into the North Sea it was all over
Surely Rooney was always going to win.Watt passed the info but Vardy was well aware
As soon as Watt's phone went into the North Sea it was all over
She blamed the leak from ‘Vardys Account’, not Vardy, and this was clearly the case.
The post was full of phrases like "someone I trusted to follow me", and "just one person has viewed them". She doesn't get to row back from that by saying "yes but at the end I did say her account, not her". For roughly the same reasons that if you publish a giant newspaper headline that says "Michael Portillo has sex with goats" you can't dodge a libel suit by pointing to the tiny print on page 5 that says "actually that bit about goat shagging might not be true".
If she'd wanted to hide behind an "I said her account, not her" defence then at the very least she'd have had to have included a much more substantive disclaimer to the original post, along the lines of "of course it's possible that someone with access to her account did this without her knowledge... I've asked her for an explanation etc etc". She didn't do that.
So in order to win the case Rooney did have to prove that the leaking was done by Vardy herself, or at least by someone acting with Vardy's approval. Which she did, thanks in part to some car crash testimony from Vardy and Watt.
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