Rebekah Vardy wins in first stage of Coleen Rooney libel action
almost 5 years in The guardian
Judge rules Instagram post could be read as an allegation and not meant as ‘reasonable grounds to suspect’
Coleen Rooney’s Instagram post about the suspected source of leaks of private information in the so-called “Wagatha Christie” row implied that Rebekah Vardy had “secretly informed the Sun newspaper of Ms Rooney’s private posts and stories”, a judge ruled on Friday.
In a victory for Vardy that sets the parameters for her libel action against Rooney, Mr Justice Warby rejected the contention that the post simply meant that there were “reasonable grounds to suspect” Vardy, as Rooney’s lawyers had argued. Continue reading...
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