What happens when you lose in court? Lose, lose and lose again. Carole Cadwalladr has today suffered yet another setback in her never-ending war against Brexit ‘bad boy’ Arron Banks. The Court of Appeal has denied the Observer journalist’s request to appeal her most recent libel loss to the Supreme Court.
In its decision the court said an appeal to the UK’s top court is only granted in cases which raise ‘an arguable point of law of general public importance.’ Unfortunately for Carole, ‘this decision does not do so.’ Cadwalladr wasn’t challenging the fact that Banks was successful overall or that English costs law had been properly applied. Indeed as the court noted ‘Ms Cadwalladr does not challenge the court’s decision that Mr Banks was the successful party overall.’
Instead Carole questioned the ruling that she should pay 60 per cent of the first proceedings in Banks’ case. But the court concluded that ‘in our view there is no arguable case’. Today’s ruling established that she has £275,000 in insurance and £1.1 million in crowdfunding.
Sizeable sums that sould come in handy…
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