Doh

Vardy brought the case, Rooney has defended herself after offering 4 times to sort it out of court.

Rather classy given my prejudices regards footballers and WAGS in general.

Always amusing when idiots find their behaviour being judging by the grown-ups, eg in Vardy World destroying evidence is a winning play, in the real world oh no it isn’t!

Doh

Bet Peter Andre had a chuckle about this, yesterday.

Rumour has it,  that the Vardy’s might start having to liquidate their assets to pay this bill.  First to go, could be their Portuguese villa.  That’s going to smart, isn’t it?

Unless they go double or quits and appeal.  Fergie time?

Just read this thread for the first time so apologies for going back over some old stuff:

Criticising the lawyers for taking the case.

They don’t really have a choice, and rightly so. No one should be excluded from accessing legal remedy because a lawyers opinion is that they don’t deserve it. If a barrister could refuse to take a brief because they think a WAG doesn’t deserve to be protected from libel, then what about if they object to someone’s politics? Or their sexual orientation? Or their skin colour? The elephant in the room of course is that while being a gay, black Marxist won’t stop you getting a barrister to represent you, not having hundreds of thousands of pounds available will. But if you can afford it and your claim / defence isn’t nonsense then you can and should be able to get representation.

The financial barrier also affects cases even when they could be afforded: received a claim at work that we felt could be successfully defended and lawyers agreed, they were “highly confident” which is as close as you’ll get from a lawyer to saying “nailed on.” They also told us it would cost us a minimum £80k. We had the money for that so we could have fought it. The claimant was willing to settle for £20k. We settled.

Why did Rooney have prove it was Vardy personally when the accusation referred to “her account?”

This is based around what used to be referred to as “the man on the Clapham omnibus” – what would a reasonable person, without specialist knowledge, understand something to mean. There was a previous hearing that determined that a reasonable person would take it as accusing the person. Both sides made their arguments and Rooney lost that one. I’ve not read the ruling but from what was reported, factors were:

“Celebs” do often / usually have “people” managing their social media accounts to a greater or lesser extent. This is known by some people, but it was a point of argument as how widely this would be apparent to a normal person.

That’s far from a given, and many famous people do run their accounts personally.

Even where accounts are ‘managed’ that is often not transparent and output is presented as though it is personal.

This involved Vardy’s private account, not her public facing one, so even for those savvy enough to realise that famous people have others doing their social media, it might be reasonable to expect that this would be much less likely to be case for a personal “friends and family” account.

It was NOT about Vardy being responsible for things done in her name as some have suggested. Indeed Vardy’s argument was essentially that her agent had acted without her knowledge. Her case did not fail because that isn’t valid. If she’d persuaded the court that this is what had happened, she’d have won. She lost because the judge determined that it was bullshit.

She lost because the judge determined that it was bullshit.

And phones can be so slippery in the hand.

Indeed Vardy’s argument was essentially that her agent had acted repeatedly without her knowledge.

LMFTFY

And phones can be so slippery in the hand.

Whilst out trawl fishing in the North Sea 🙂

I think it also unfortunately happened a short time after it was asked for like these things do, cant believe that coincidence.

I do think it was a twist thou that she did ‘win’ the first round but ended up finally losing,she probably thought she was going to get away with it.

The laws a funny beast thou and the whole Celeb thing.

Slebs and the law…do they not understand it also applies to them and they shouldn’t expect special consideration and judges have heard all sorts of lies since their first case?
As for vardy being a sleb – nothing more than a wannabe who married a successful footie player; how much longer will that relationship last?
Chants about vardy from opposition fans are likely to be highly amusing when the season starts.

Anyway they had backed up the messages but the password was forgotten and a laptop also seemed to suffer with issues as well.

Does seem like the ‘dog ate my homework’ defence instead of the tried and tested Chewbacca one.

Both vardy and her (former) PA/publicist must have been incredibly careless and unlucky at the same time.
I’m sure that a phone falling into the north sea and an accidental mass deletion of messages both happening when it became known they would be required in evidence was nothing other than a pure co-incidence.
As for forgotten password – that’s happened to all of us; as for problems with a laptop, well y’know.
Yep, incredibly unlucky with a dash of carelessness.
Over made-up, conniving, manipulative, lying airhead.
As for PA/publicist being medically/mentally unfit to testify – what bollocks.

As for PA/publicist being medically/mentally unfit to testify – what bollocks.

I dunno. I can see a PR person having a nervous breakdown about how to to weasel out of this mess.

Where is max clifford when he’s most needed?

Dead?

Not prison, sadly.

Not prison, sadly.

He died of a heart attack 3 years into serving an 8 year prison sentence.

Maybe vardy can summon him via the ouija board; alternatively, channel her inner doris stokes.

Heh, Vardy is is still protesting her innocence in the Manchester Guardian today. This at the end of the report ticked me.

I picked up the phone and I called her and basically said: ‘What the **** is this?’ and her response was quite, I don’t know, quite rude, quite harsh.

Really, that was your opening gambit and you expected something other than rude back? What a melt.