A London court on Wednesday heard that US President Donald Trump refused to pay 290,000 pounds ($ 360,000) in legal fees after dismissing his English trial against a private investigation firm.
Trump brought a data protection case against Orbis Business Intelligence on the allegations in a dosier written by his co-founder, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steel, but his claim was excluded in February last year.
The so-called Steel Dojier formed the alleged relationship of Trump’s 2016 election campaign and other humble allegations, all of whom denied Trump.
The lawyers representing the orbis on Wednesday said that Trump was ordered to pay 290,000 pounds towards the legal fees of the orbis, there is also a possibility of further amount.
Orbis lawyer Mark Fryston said, “There is no real reason for non-payment.”
He said that Trump was now also claiming that he had “sovereign immunity” from any enforcement action as the head of the state, an argument he said “completely disappointing” was because it was a private trial.
Trump’s lawyer Jacqueline Perry stated that the court was “a little unusual position, with a little unusual customer”.
“It is difficult to get this instruction when your customer is the president of the free world and is trying to reverse everything,” he said. “This is not high in the field of their importance.”
He said that the President was “an innocent party” and was claiming a professional negligence against his former legal advisors to bring his High Court trial under the wrong law.
He said, “This was the reason that the case was killed,” he said, he wanted action against his former advisors, who settled before Orbis addressed “Eyes Water”.
Judge Jason Rovale ruled that Trump would have to pay 290,000 pounds within 28 days, or would prevent them from addressing the court in April on future arguments about the legal fees of Orbis.
Trump’s data security trial was dismissed, Judge Karen Stan said “there are no compelling reasons to allow the claim to move forward”.
Trump said in a witness statement for the hearing that he brought the case to prove claims in the so -called steel dosier published by the Buzzfeed website in 2017, that he was in “deformed sexual acts” in Russia, false.
Many claims in the dosier were never confirmed and the lawyers for Trump said the report was “very wrong” and included “many false, foi or bani allegations”.
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