12 h, nov 25, 2020 y - Johnny Depp v NGN & DAN WOOTTON Permission To Appeal DENIED Johnny Depp To Pay COSTS PUBLISHED

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The initial costs order and refusal of permission for Johnny Depp to Appeal was in a document dated 16 November 2020. This does not appear to have been published until 25 November 2020 although it is highly likely that Johnny Depp and his team along with NGN (although not Amber Heard as she was not a party in the proceedings) would have been informed of the decision prior to publication.

Paragraph 9: I have refused the Claimant permission to appeal. In substance the Claimant disagrees with my findings of fact, but for the reasons summarised by Mr Wolanski the findings of fact by a first instance tribunal (particularly one, such as myself, who has heard oral evidence) are rarely open to challenge on appeal. In any event, I do not consider that the proposed grounds of appeal have a reasonable prospect of success (and that is also the case so far as the grounds of appeal suggest that I erred in principle or in law) and there is not some other compelling reason why permission to appeal should be granted.

Paragraph 10: Ordinarily, the time for submitting a notice of appeal is 21 days from the lower court's decision - see CPR r.52.12(2)(b), but I have poser to extend that time. The Defendants did not respond to the Claimant's request that there should be an extension until 7th December and, where have deferred dealing with consequential matters until this order, I regard the request for an extension to be reasonable.

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