BENNETT GETS THE BILL

Words fail me.

Carter-Rucks's costs: £288,503 for fighting McCanns v Bennett
Tony Bennett Today at 4:13 pm

Today Carter-Ruck have informed me of their total costs in the case of McCanns v Bennett, which they expect to claim from me if they win on Wednesday, i.e. prove me guilty of contempt of court. They are as follows:

1. Solicitors' fees of Carter-Ruck to date:

£181,245

2. Disbursements: Court fees, process servers & couriers:

£1,484

3. Fees of Jacob Dean, barrister, for all hearings to date and advice:

£25,475

4. Fees of Adrienne Page Q.C., for advice and a 2-day hearing:

£32,250

5. VAT on all the above

£48,049

GRAND TOTAL:

£288,503


So much for this sentence on pages 289-290 of 'madeleine', by Dr Kate McCann:

"Adam Tudor and his colleague Isabel Hudson continue to do a vast amount of work for us, without payment, most of it quietly, behind the scenes"

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Hasn't he grasped it YET?

The McCanns don't pay a penny of that.

HE DOES

I believe he was told that if he lost he would pay the fees but if he won, he would not?

I know I've seen it somewhere.

Hounder offers to help, inadvertently confirming she knows Head Hounder is going to get a pasting:

Thats a lot of wonga!!
Could you pay in installments...im sure many would love to help

Maybe Mrs Big House could sell her place to help him?

It's times like these that you find out who your friends are.

Hounder says something sensible:

I'm not asking him to do anything. he has free will. The other day I asked him if he understood the October judgment, which says "It is a rule of law of great importance that undertakings to the court (like injunctions) must be obeyed so long as they are in force."

Up to 2 days ago Tony was still disobeying his court order.

In a minimal way, that's true, it's not like he was on Newsnight or anything, but they're still breaches. Who knows if the Court takes into account the severity of the breach? A breach might simply be a breach. None of us know the law.

People should not be encouraging him to further disobey the Court.

Yoyo objects:


I think we have heard enough from you batting for the other side. Give it a rest.
Spinning is not going to change what will pan out in Court.

Me, I think it is marvellous that yoyo is urging Bennett down the road to ruin - are we sure he isn't some kind of WUM sleepertroll?

Lily that is true, if he wins he pays nothing and Carter Ruck pays his bills...highly unlikely I know.

However £90,000 savings leave £198,503...somehow I cannot see him raising even the three pounds off the Hounders, so that leaves his house, which he will have to sell in order to pay the costs.

No wonder his wife left him a while ago after pleading with him to stop what he was doing, but he carried on regardless.

Me, I think it is marvellous that yoyo is urging Bennett down the road to ruin - are we sure he isn't some kind of WUM sleepertroll?

What else can it be? Remember they said that they knew they had a troll on their forum and they were trying to find out who it was.

I might be wrong, but wasn't it someone from CR?

Well, there is a respected hounder on there, who passes on libellous posts to Carter Ruck, on a daily basis. The respected poster, is also one who the Hounders will least expect

muratfan wrote:Lily that is true, if he wins he pays nothing and Carter Ruck pays his bills...highly unlikely I know.

However £90,000 savings leave £198,503...somehow I cannot see him raising even the three pounds off the Hounders, so that leaves his house, which he will have to sell in order to pay the costs.

No wonder his wife left him a while ago after pleading with him to stop what he was doing, but he carried on regardless.

Average selling price of houses in Chippingfield in the last year is £211,000

Let's not forget, CR will carry insurance against losing.

Would they not leave half of the house price for the wife though?

Oh yes, Bonny. Thats why they are proper lawyers.

Yoyo, yet again:

aiyoyo Today

£25,475
4. Fees of Adrienne Page Q.C., for advice and a 2-day hearing:


Daylight robbery! The financier who agrees to that hire, and face the real possibility of having to foot that bill in the eventuality they lost the case, must either have a vendetta against TB or was so complicit in this mess that he has something to hide bigger and beyond the Mccanns and their missing child.

To spend someone's else money one needs to seek consent, hence the mccanns could not have made the decision to hire such an expensive big gun without the financier nod of head.

Clearly a job for Very Big Letters.


INSURANCE

Do these fools know nothing? No need to answer.....

lily wrote:Would they not leave half of the house price for the wife though?

Oh yes, Bonny. Thats why they are proper lawyers.

She moved out ages ago

Don't forget he will have to pay damages as well

As you have pointed out Bonny; Carter and Ruck have insurance to cover their expenditure should they fail.
Which should pose the question; would an insurance company cover C & R. if they thought they were backing losers?
Answers on a postcard please.

If it was me, he'd have been under the patio long ago.

So that would mean that they would not touch her half of community property?

Could Bennett declare bankruptcy?

crazytony wrote:As you have pointed out Bonny; Carter and Ruck have insurance to cover their expenditure should they fail.
Which should pose the question; would an insurance company cover C & R. if they thought they were backing losers?
Answers on a postcard please.

Or even a stamp

crazytony wrote:As you have pointed out Bonny; Carter and Ruck have insurance to cover their expenditure should they fail.
Which should pose the question; would an insurance company cover C & R. if they thought they were backing losers?
Answers on a postcard please.

Oh.....that's a tough one, Tony.

muratfan wrote:

crazytony wrote:As you have pointed out Bonny; Carter and Ruck have insurance to cover their expenditure should they fail.
Which should pose the question; would an insurance company cover C & R. if they thought they were backing losers?
Answers on a postcard please.

Or even a stamp

Being serious for a brief second, the people I feel really sorry for are bentit's kids. You can choose your partner and if it turns out to be a wrong choice you can show them the door. But you can't choose your parents, and when you get one like bentit as your father, it must be awful. I mean, do you have kids yourself and pass on the bad genes, which in his case seem to far outweigh the good genes, or do you become a monk/nun, or gay? And his grandson, what nemesis is hanging over his head? LL

LL, well said. We all make mistakes but what Bennett has done to his family is beyond selfish and in my opinion, inexcusable.

He is one completely self centered pathetic excuse for a man.

I don't think any of them have mirrors in their homes, LL - they seem to have no concept of how they are seen by the rest of the world.

As nothing more than stalkers and an internet lynch mob. I really, really hope the press go to town on them next week.

Re: Carter-Rucks's costs: £288,503 for fighting McCanns v Bennett
aiyoyo Today at 5:23 pm

CR works only for those who can pay through their noses! Those types are usually dodgy who need reputation management, hence willing to fork out.
CR is happy to defense their porkie pies so long as the lard goes into their pocket.

No difference from assassins for hire if price is right.

Hope someone's taking copies of this.

Is someone paying them to act stupid or is that their nartural birth mode?