21h 26min, apr 8, 2020 y - DAILY MAIL
AH 'sexual violence'
evidence will be
kept secret
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Amber Heard's 'sexual violence' evidence against Johnny Depp will be kept secret at his libel trial against The Sun newspaper despite him arguing that the claims be made public.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star is suing the tabloid's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor Dan Wootton over an April 2018 article which referred to the 56-year-old as a 'wife-beater'.
A two-week trial was due to start in London on March 25 at which the actor, Ms Heard, 33, and a number of Hollywood figures would have had to give evidence, but it was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At a remote Skype hearing on Wednesday, Mr Justice Nicol ruled part of Ms Heard's evidence relating to allegations of sexual violence will be heard in private during the forthcoming trial.
Adam Waldman, Depp's lawyer, said afterwards: 'Amber Heard and her friends in the media use fake sexual violence allegations as both a sword and shield, depending on their needs.
'They have selected some of her sexual violence hoax 'facts' as the sword, inflicting them on the public and Mr. Depp.
'Today Ms. Heard appropriated important court privacy rules designed to protect real victims as a shield behind which Ms. Heard's most absurd new claims can hide.
'Mr. Depp, contrary to the desperate claims of Ms. Heard, took a 'neutral' position in today's hearing.
'Public or private, it will make no difference to our obliteration of Ms. Heard's new-but-not-improved hoax with mushrooming evidence including her own secretly recorded audio tapes.'
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