Posted on 03/07/2024 12:36:43 PM PST by algore
Donald Trump was ordered to pay six-figure legal costs to ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele's company after suing over allegations which claimed he took part in 'sex parties' and gave bribes to Russian officials.
The former US president brought legal action against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele.
Mr Steele, who previously ran the Secret Intelligence Service's Russia desk, was the author of the so-called Steele dossier, which included denied allegations that Mr Trump had been 'compromised' by the Russian security service, the FSB.
At a hearing in London last year, the High Court was told Mr Trump was bringing a data protection claim over two memos in the dossier which claimed he had taken part in 'sex parties' while in St Petersburg and engaged in 'golden showers' with prostitutes in Moscow.
In a ruling last month, Mrs Justice Steyn threw out Mr Trump's case, finding his compensation claim was 'bound to fail'.
And in an order, the judge also said the Republican front-runner will pay Orbis's costs 'of the entire claim'.
Mrs Justice Steyn said Orbis has estimated its costs to be more than £600,000.
She ordered that £300,000 should be paid by Mr Trump before the total costs are decided by a specialist judge.
The order, from early February, also said Mr Trump has made no attempt to bring an appeal.
The dossier, made up of more than a dozen memos, was produced by Orbis in 2016 ahead of the US election which saw Mr Trump become president before it was leaked to and published by BuzzFeed in 2017.
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TOTALLY IGNORE this ruling. Screw them.
Trump need NEVER go to England again anyway.
A rotten gov, using power not given, to destroy a man in their way.. The heartless, evil beings.. Have not considered God
The United States is not theirs..
The UK is done.
UK High Court— whoopee. Try collecting on such FALSE basis,for the completely fabricated HOAX you, Steele, were PAID by HItlery Clintoon to produce. You, sir are a FRAUD. and probably on the Epstein list along with your co-employer Prince Andrew and who could forget the harridan, Fergie. Pervo paedos in a pod, with hitlery and billy cokenose and of course the Mossad.
“Dismissing the claim, Mrs Justice Steyn said the ‘mere fact’ that Orbis had held copies of the memos could not cause Mr Trump distress.”
Alice just went down the rabbit hole
5.56mm
Easy, easy, easy....
It’s often the case that legal fees are split between victor and vanquished.
Unless you win gloriously, as in the other side really had no case and were just being difficult, you’ll likely get stuck paying into the legal fee kitty. IF, OTOH, you DO prevail on spectacular fashion, judges typically stack the legal fees upon the defeated party as something of an economic penalty for having forced such a threadbare case into courts in the first place.
Agree
How is that bad?
And in an order, the judge also said the Republican front-runner will pay Orbis's costs 'of the entire claim'.
Trump: "Alright, I'll do it. Right after the folks who have sued ME, and failed, pay all of MY legal costs!"
I do not think the judicial result of lawsuits is the loser pays the legal costs of the winner.
I think many frivolous and wrongful lawsuits would be avoided in the U.S. if we had that rule.
And if we had that rule I would want the rule to apply to the government as well when the gpvernment loses a lawsuit. That would end the federal government (DOJ) from using its power to keep the defendent in court until they are broke, forcing the defendent to take a “setttlement”, while admitting no guilt, yet still incurring some sort of “penalty”; all just to end an endless suit in which the defendent knows they are not guilty. The loser pays rule would put the DOJ on notice that when their case is weak, they can’t keep pursuing it, because the loser-pays-rule is mounting up costs against THEM!!!
If the loser has to pay the winner it keeps frivolous suits from even being filed.
Or maybe judges shouldn’t allow them.
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