Rebekah Vardy has said she is "not at all worried" about having to pay legal fees, as she laughed off claims she will have to sell her holiday home in Portugal. The WAG, 40, is set to pick up the brunt of the reported £3 million legal costs after she lost her High Court Wagatha Christie libel case against Coleen Rooney last week. Rebekah and her husband Jamie own a luxury villa on an exclusive golf resort, which they have previously referred to as their "sanctuary".
The legal issues in the Wagatha libel battle between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy
29.07.2022 - 12:39 / ok.co.uk
The Wagatha Christie trial between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy is coming to an end.The case centres around Rebekah’s Instagram account being accused by Coleen of leaking fake stories about her in October 2019 in a now famous Instagram post dubbed Wagatha Christie. Rebekah, 40, denies the allegations and is suing 36 year old Coleen for libel. The pair’s lawyers made their closing statements at Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday 19 May and after much waiting the decision is set to be revealed this afternoon.
Ahead of the verdict, we take a look at the legal issues in the libel battle. What is a libel? A libel is a published statement which is damaging to a person’s reputation. In the Wagatha Christie case, Rebekah says that she has suffered “very serious harm to her reputation” as a result of Coleen’s 2019 Instagram post which alleged her account was responsible for leaking information about her to The Sun newspaper and she is seeking “substantial damages”, or compensation.
Coleen is defending the claim on the basis it was true and in the public interest for her to publish it. What has to be proved? In a libel case, it is up to the defendant - Coleen in this case - to prove their defence to the claim. In this case, she relies on a defence of truth - that what she posted when she identified Rebekah as the alleged leaker was “substantially true”.
Coleen also argues that she reasonably believed it was in the public interest to expose Rebekah as the alleged leaker of the posts. As this is a civil case, the standard of proof is “on the balance of probabilities”, or “more likely than not”. What was the meaning of the post by Coleen? At an earlier stage of the proceedings in late 2020, a judge concluded that the “natural and
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