Lawyer says client ‘glad it’s over’ as Rebekah Vardy faces considerable bill after high court judgment
about a documentary series about the trial, with a potential deal with Netflix or Amazon Prime.
“Coleen hasn’t wanted this,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “She didn’t want any of this to happen. She doesn’t want any compensation, retribution, she’s never wanted any of that, she just wanted the intrusion that she was seeing into her private life to stop and that was her sole aim and her sole focus.
Lunt, head of litigation at law firm Brabners, said they tried to settle the case but that as a defendant, Rooney, whose husband is the former England footballer Wayne, had “very limited choices”. He claimed that according to court cost budgets, the reported £3m figure for legal costs was “a gross overestimate”.