Coleen Rooney has been denied permission to deliver a Excessive Court docket declare in opposition to Rebekah Vardy’s former agent as a part of their ongoing libel case.
In an October 2019 Twitter submit, Rooney, 35, accused Vardy, 39, of leaking tales about her personal life after embarking on a ‘sting operation’ for a number of months.
Rooney, who's married to former England star Wayne Rooney, claimed Vardy had shared pretend tales she posted on her private Instagram account with The Solar newspaper.
Vardy, who's married to Leicester Metropolis footballer Jamie Vardy, vehemently denies the claims.
Her legal professionals beforehand claimed that Vardy had leaked info to The Solar both instantly or by means of her agent Caroline Watt ‘performing on her instruction or together with her understanding approval’.
Rooney can also be bringing a declare in opposition to Watt for misuse of personal info and through a listening to final Tuesday and Wednesday, requested for it to be joined to the libel declare.
Her barrister David Sherborne argued that, if Vardy wins her declare on the idea that she was not the one who leaked the knowledge, then Rooney will probably be left with out ‘vindication’ until she is ready to deliver the declare in opposition to Watt as a part of the identical case.
Vardy’s legal professionals opposed the applying so as to add the declare in opposition to Watt to the libel case.
Hugh Tomlinson QC, for Vardy, stated in written arguments: ‘If the defendant had genuinely wished to deliver a misuse of personal info declare in opposition to Ms Watt in an effort to vindicate her rights this declare might have been introduced 15 months in the past.’
Throughout the ruling on Monday, Mrs Justice Steyn refused permission for the extra declare in opposition to Watt and refused permission for it to be heard alongside the libel trial.
Nonetheless, the decide gave the go-ahead for Rooney to amend her defence case, to incorporate an allegation that Vardy, by means of Watt, offered info to The Solar about an unnamed skilled footballer.
She additionally gave permission for disclosure of WhatsApp messages between Vardy and Watt through the related interval, and allowed Rooney’s software for an order that each events make a joint request for info to Instagram.
She refused different disclosure functions made by each Rooney and Vardy.
It comes after bombshell claims in final week’s hearings, which included allegations that Vardy despatched textual content messages calling Rooney a ‘c**t’ and ‘nasty b***h’.
Nonetheless, Vardy’s barrister Tomlinson QC instructed the court docket: ‘This isn't a passage about Mrs Rooney, it's a passage about another person.’
Tomlinson beforehand instructed the court docket that the messages referred to by Rooney’s barrister Sherborne, which have been stated to ‘reveal that Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt are chargeable for the leaking’, have been ‘selective’, and stated elements of the exchanges which have been overlooked had ‘exactly the alternative impact’.
He added: ‘If one reads these messages in full, what one sees is that Mrs Vardy expresses shock at being accused and he or she is right here speaking with the individual that Mr Sherborne says is her co-conspirator.
‘These are clearly candid private messages, and if she was actually involved – “Oh, that is horrible, we've got been discovered” – then it could have been utterly totally different.’
The trial is because of start in early Might however is more likely to be delayed.
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