Rebekah Vardy's latest court battle against Coleen Rooney branded 'fishing expedition'

Barristers representing Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy person appeared successful tribunal aft the second mislaid her libel lawsuit against Wayne Rooney's wife

Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy's lawyers person been backmost successful court.

A bid for Rebekah to entree much documents was labelled a "fishing expedition" and "an effort to derail" the latest signifier of the Wagatha Christie lawsuit against Coleen Rooney, the High Court has heard. The woman of Wayne Rooney went caput to caput successful tribunal arsenic Rebekah launched a libel lawsuit against the Liverpudlian pursuing her infamous tweet. In 2019, Coleen took to societal media claiming that Rebekah's Instagram relationship was liable for leaking stories to the press, an allegation which she denies.

Lawyers for Mrs Vardy – the woman of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy – are asking the tribunal successful London to bid Mrs Rooney's squad to manus implicit "privileged" documents, and details astir her assertion for VAT. Mrs Vardy was ordered to wage 90% of Mrs Rooney's costs – much than £1.8 cardinal – aft she mislaid the ineligible enactment successful 2022.

Her lawyers are disputing the sum, and astatine a proceeding connected Tuesday applied for further accusation astir retainers betwixt the woman of erstwhile Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney and her solicitors. In written submissions, Robin Dunne, for Mrs Rooney, said that "despite the hyperbolic quality of the claimant's argument, determination is nary genuine contented astatine all".

He added: "The suspect is forced to reason that this is yet different effort by the claimant to behaviour this appraisal successful a wholly disproportionate manner." Mr Dunne besides said: "The tribunal is invited to extinguish this sportfishing expedition. There is nary genuine contented and the VAT constituent has been clarified.

"The claimant's exertion is misconceived, seeking orders which the tribunal has nary jurisdiction to make, but moreover is an effort to derail this assessment. This volition pb to yet much costs and delay, which is successful neither parties' interest."

Jamie Carpenter KC, for Mrs Vardy, told the tribunal that the concern implicit much than £300,000 successful VAT is "murky, to accidental the least", and that further disclosure is needed to cognize the VAT is decently claimed. In his written submissions, helium said: "What has emerged gives emergence to a fig of further questions, which needed to beryllium answered."

Mr Carpenter added: "It is submitted that it is not an reply simply to accidental that each of the VAT has been repaid, though the grounds does not presently enactment that successful immoderate event, due to the fact that it leaves unfastened the question of whether it was decently reclaimed successful the archetypal place."

He besides said that these issues request to beryllium cleared up now, adding: "Further, the magnitude of VAT which is successful contented is simply a wide obstacle to colony and the avoidance of a further hearing." In a three-day proceeding past October, lawyers for Mrs Vardy argued that the sum she is required to wage should beryllium reduced owed to what they said was "serious misconduct" by Mrs Rooney's ineligible team, who allegedly "deliberately understated" her costs.

But the justice recovered that Mrs Rooney's ineligible squad had not committed wrongdoing. Senior Costs Judge Mark Whalan said helium volition springiness judgement astatine a aboriginal date. Coleen claimed she spent a full of £1,833,906.89 to spell head-to-head with Rebekah. Jamie Carpenter KC, who represented Rebekah, claimed the astronomical outgo includes a measure for 1 of Coleen's ineligible squad to enactment astatine the lavish Nobu Hotel. The bill, according to Rebekah's lawyer, included "substantial meal and drinks charges arsenic good arsenic mini barroom charges." Mr Carpenter added that Coleen's squad utilized an unfair attack erstwhile adding up each the costs incurred during the trial.

Carpenter had accused Coleen of "deliberately deceiving" the tribunal by underestimating the costs and clip which was spent connected the case. Vardy's lawyer believed that she should not beryllium made to wage £117,500 positive VAT for "expert fees" which was invoiced aft the archetypal fund had been agreed successful 2021.

Robin Dunne, for Rooney, said that "there has been nary misconduct" and that it was "illogical to accidental that we misled anyone." In a ruling successful October, Senior Costs Judge Andrew Gordon-Saker recovered "on equilibrium and, I person to say, lone just", that Mrs Rooney's ineligible squad had not committed wrongdoing, and truthful it was "not an due case" to trim the magnitude of wealth that Mrs Vardy should pay.

He said that portion determination was a "failure to beryllium transparent", it was not "sufficiently unreasonable oregon improper" to represent misconduct. Coleen's representative, Dunne, argued it was "outrageous" to impeach them of being dishonest and slammed Rebekah's "deplorable conduct", adding that the ineligible costs would person been little if "she conducted this litigation appropriately." The London proceeding was told that Mrs Rooney's claimed ineligible measure – £1,833,906.89 – was much than 3 times her "agreed costs fund of £540,779.07", which Mr Carpenter said was "disproportionate". He continued that the earlier "understatement" of immoderate costs was "improper and unreasonable" and "involved knowingly misleading Mrs Vardy and the court".

Mr Dunne said that the statement that the magnitude owed should beryllium reduced was "misconceived" and that the fund was "not designed to beryllium an close oregon binding representation| of her wide ineligible costs.

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