Max Mosley privacy case costs to hit £1m
The ;legal ;costs ;in Formula ;1 ;chief ;Max Mosley’s five-day privacy suit against the News of the World are set to hit £1m.
Mosley took action against the Sunday newspaper after it secretly filmed him taking part in a sex orgy.
A source close to the case told The Lawyer: “Mosley has two counsel in addition to his solicitors, while the News of the World has just one barrister, but both sides have spent about £500,000.”
Media chambers 5 Raymond Buildings will reap a big chunk of the costs as both lead silks hail from the set.
5 Raymond’s Mark Warby QC was instructed by Farrer & Co partner Benjamin Beabey for the News of the World, while James Price QC of the same set acted for Mosley after being instructed by Steeles Law litigation chief Dominic Crossley.
The case, which saw Mosley’s legal team argue that his privacy rights were breached, is expected to conclude today (14 July).
Readers' comments (4)
Anonymous | 14-Jul-2008 5:00 pm
Max Moseley Costs
5 dominatrices cost him £35000 a year I believe. 2 Counsel and a solicitor have cost £500,000 for 5 days. Which gives best value for money?
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Anonymous | 14-Jul-2008 7:58 pm
Mosley law suit
If any case should have appeared before a tribunal of ones 'peers', this is it. It is simply not good enough that one lawyer (regardless of how he finds) should have the ability to affect future decisions ,on precedence, that affect 60 million people.
This is a legal system, NOT a justice system. Mosley has ruined himself in the world of public opinion and will be a pathetic creature wherever he goes. If Eady's opinion should be that punitive damages against the NOTW, then one pound sterling would seem about right.
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Tony the Trader | 15-Jul-2008 9:05 am
Well and truly...
LOL. He got screwed better by his counsel than he did in that flat in Chelsea. Whoever the Senior Clerk is, I take my hat off to him.
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Anonymous | 15-Jul-2008 2:19 pm
A bob each way
I am not sure how the learned Mr Price would hope to have a bob each way. On the one hand, he tries to portray the activities of Mr Mosley as being perfectly acceptable in decent society and almost adult pranks, and on the other, so grevious that poor Mr Mosley's life has been ruined, sentenced to be the butt of humiliation for the rest of his miserable, pathetic life, thus justifying astronomical damages. If his client's behaviour is considered so acceptable in decent society, why would he be in the slightest bit embarrassed about its exposure?
And as for destroying evidence (emails ordering the salacious session no doubt), I thought that was still a crime in the UK. But I guess only sometimes.
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment