NEW: Johnny Depp has FAILED in his application to appeal the libel judgment which found The Sun newspaper’s allegation he engaged in domestic violence against Amber Heard was “substantially true”.
Mr Depp will not be able to take his legal case further on this issue and the High Court judgment of Mr Justice Nicol stands.
Today’s ruling will be posted shortly (if it’s not already) on the judiciary website here:
judiciary.uk
judiciary.uk
It is a 14 page, 50 paragraph judment. The two Court of Appeal judges, Lord Justice Dingemans and Lord Justice Underhill go through the appeal application (heard last Thursday) in some detail and conclude:
“We would accordingly dismiss both Mr Depp’s application for permission to adduce further evidence and his application for permission to appeal. As we have said, it is not easy to persuade this Court to overturn the findings of a trial judge on purely factual questions...
… We do not believe that there is a real prospect of it being prepared to do so in this case. The hearing before Nicol J was full and fair, and he gave thorough reasons for his conclusions which have not...
… been shown even arguably to b vitiated by any error of approach or mistake of law.”
[vitiated = "destroyed or impaired the legal validity of”]
[vitiated = "destroyed or impaired the legal validity of”]
So there we go. All eyes now turn to the legal proceedings happening in the US. There is a trial - Depp v Heard - scheduled for next April at Fairfax County Court, VA about a different defamation issue, related to a newspaper article which appeared in the Washington Post.
I now have to run to court 4 of the Royal Courts of Justice to continue the live-tweeting of the Subpostmaster which has now entered day 4.
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