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Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month.

She found that Mr Trump's compensation claim was "bound to fail".

In a new ruling she also ordered Mr Trump to pay Orbis's costs "of the entire claim".

The order, obtained by the PA news agency on Thursday, also said Mr Trump has made no attempt to bring an appeal.

Mr Steele, who previously ran the Secret Intelligence Service's Russia desk, was the author of the so-called Steele dossier.

This included uncorroborated intelligence claims, denied by Mr Trump, that the former US president had been "compromised" by the Russian security service, the FSB.

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[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

The High Court [of Justice in England] was told last year that Mr Trump was bringing a data protection claim over two memos in the dossier which claimed he had taken part in "sex parties" in St Petersburg and engaged in "golden showers" with prostitutes in Moscow.

Mrs Justice Steyn said Orbis has estimated its costs to be more than £600,000.

She said £300,000 should be paid by Mr Trump before the total costs are decided by a specialist judge.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Mrs Justice

That term looked like a typo. Some research just now taught me that, in fact, that's one way female judges may be formally addressed. Here's another...

High court judge is first to be formally addressed as Ms Justice

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/may/21/high-court-judge-ms-justice

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

This is gorgeous.

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