Johnny Depp Applies For Appeal In U.K. ‘Wife Beater’ Ruling

etcanada.com:

Johnny Depp is looking to overturn a recent British high court ruling in his defamation trial. In November, a judge dismissed the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star’s libel claim against the Sun, which had described Depp as a “wife beater” in an April 2018 article about claims of abuse by ex-wife Amber Heard.

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Although he has proved the necessary elements of his cause of action in libel, the defendants have shown that what they published in the meaning which I have held the words to bear was substantially true,” the judge ruled.