Hi all. Tomorrow I will (hopefully) get the Depp v NGN judgment at 1000GMT. It is being posted on the UK judiciary website (judiciary.uk) and likely bailii.org
I’ll be tweeting excerpts as soon as the ruling is made public...
… and then putting together a report for @5_News. There is nothing physically happening at the High Court (in normal times these judgments can be collected from court or key points/remarks read out by the presiding judge).
@5_News The parties will almost certainly have had sight of the judgment for a few days now, but to breathe a word of the contents to anyone would put them in contempt of court. Once the judgment is made public, you can expect them to comment. Whether that is via media release or...
@5_News interviews is up to them. I suspect the former, but you never know.
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BREAKING: Johnny Depp has lost his libel claim against NGN newspapers...
Par 588 "The Claimant has not succeeded in his action for libel. Although he has proved the necessary elements of his cause of action in libel, the Defendants have shown that what they published in the meaning which I have held the words to bear was substantially true."
[sorry par 585 contd] "I have reached these conclusions having examined in detail the 14 incidents on which the Defendants rely as well as the overarching considerations which the Claimant submitted I should take into account…."
Welcome to Day 10 of the Depp v NGN libel trial at the Royal Courts of Justice. He is suing the Sun newspaper after they called him a "wife-beater". RCJ looking good in the sunshine.
Sorry I am completely unprepared this morning. We found out yesterday that the new Chair of Governors at our son’s school has resigned. The Multi Academy Trust running the school have managed to lose a brilliant head teacher, promote somone with credibly bullying complaints...
against them and now lose the one good appointment they have made in a matter of weeks. And they've managed to install one of the most divisive figures in this whole saga as interim chair. To say I am fuming is an understatement. Here’s the latest: educationaccountability.org/2020/07/new-lg…
Good morning. It’s Thursday 16 July and we’re back at the Royal Courts of Justice for Day 7 of the Johnny Depp v NGN libel trial. He is suing the publisher of the The Sun newspaper for libel after it claimed he was a “wife-beater”
First off my apologies for managing to change not one but two names in last night’s thread about Kate JAMES’ evidence. I managed to spend a couple of tweets calling her Kate Jones. And I also started off calling Johhny Depp’s barrister Robert Sherborne. He is, of course, David...
… Sherborne.
Everything else in that tweet thread was accurated tho as it was copied and pasted from the transcript.
This is a summary of the most explosive moment in the Depp v NGN trial so far. It concerns the cross-examination and re-examination of Kate James, a former personal assistant to Amber Heard. To set the scene:
Kate James was giving evidence via videolink from LA. We were...
watching in court 38 as first Sasha Wass QC for NGN cross-examined Kate James and then Robert Sherborne for Johnny Depp re-examined her.
Kate James only made her second witness statement three days ago. Looking at the transcript (and I may be misreading his words)...
… that Robert Sherborne was only made aware of Kate James’ second witness statement today. He certainly says at one point
"Sorry, I did not have a chance to look at this until it was raised just as I came into court"
It’s Wednesday 15 July and we’re back at the Royal Courts of Justice for Day 7 of the Johnny Depp v NGN libel trial. He is suing the publisher of the The Sun newspaper for libel after it claimed he was a “wife-beater”
Today's schedule is as follows:
AM:
Ben King (in person) – Mr Depp’s former estate manager
Kevin Murphy (video link) – Mr Depp’s estate manager