This defamation trial is an extremely high-profile, high-stakes
game of "he said she said".
In some situations leading to legal action, there are
misunderstandings, misinterpretations, shades of gray allowing for
both sides to be a little bit right, and a little bit wrong; in
other cases there is much less room for maneuver or compromise,
where the black and white of vehemently and violently opposed
positions, stories, claims and evidence are pitched against each
other.
"Functionally it's a libel trial but it's also the
divorce case that never was," says global head of Withers'
media and reputation team, Amber Melville-Brown, in a recent
article published by The Guardian. "These kinds of acrimonious
accusations lobbed back and forth are of the kind you'd expect
in a nasty divorce."
