Six takeaways from the Vardy and Rooney trial
This case is clearly about reputation rather than money - but it's backfired. Clare Duffy, a media law and human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, says: "Press coverage of the evidence, from the WhatsApp messages to the witness box, will be causing both women reputational damage. Even if Vardy wins, it is doubtful that a libel judgement will fully vindicate her reputation.
"She has started something she can't stop, even if she wants to. Everyone could see this could only end badly for the Vardy family. Except the Vardy family."In her evidence, Mrs Rooney said she'd had no idea the original post in 2019, unmasking "Rebekah Vardy's account", would blow up the way it did. That was naivety at best.
Subsequent cases have included the food writer Jack Monroe's successful libel claim against the right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins, and Lord McAlpine's against Sally Bercow after she linked him in a tweet with a TV report about child sexual abuse which wrongly implicated him.6. Only very rich people can afford to go to court
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