Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
Libel cases are interesting and, as I understand it, usually the domain of the wealthy and where the 'winners' are not able to recover their full costs (which are often astronomical) from the opposition. A media lawyer has estimated that the case will cost each party around £1m and the winner will be re-imbursed around 70% of their costs only and a mere £15K-£40K in damages - leaving a deficit of around £300K. The loser will pay hugely, of course.
During some trials such as this, and indeed the Heard v Depp trial, information about poor behaviour and serious character defects on both sides can be exposed and neither party may come out the other end with much credit.
It seems a extremely expensive poker game where only the lawyers really win.
I doubt the money makes a big difference to either but the ego in allowing it to get to court from Vardy's side is mental. She will probably "legally" win the case that it can't be proven it was her that leaked the specific story as a couple of people had access to her account, but she has been exposed via whatsapp convos on trying to sell numerous stories on Drinkwater, Mahrez etc to a rag like the sun for relative peanuts and comes across a c*nt, baffling all round!