were it to go ahead, will be a massive media occasion around the world. so i think the suggestion has been from some legal authorities that he will try and strike a deal and stop this process as soon as he can buy effectively coming to an arrangement, financial arrangements, to stop the case. he it’s to stop the case. he it s interesting, to stop the case. he it s interesting, because reading the wording ofjudge lewis kaplan s judgments, he says the fact the defendant has brought the matter before the court and a motion to dismiss the complaint is legally sufficient to of central importance, as is well known to lawyers but perhaps not to the lay public, by making this motion placed upon the court there unyielding duty to assume, for the purpose of this motion, only the truth of all the plaintive s allegations and to draw in the plaintive s favour all inferences that reasonably may be drawn from those allegations. it as a consequence, the law prevents the court from considering at t
prosecutor with the southern district of new york. first of all, your reaction to this judgment? i am your reaction to this udgment? i am not surprised. your reaction to this udgment? i am not surprised. i your reaction to thisjudgment? i am not surprised. i think your reaction to thisjudgment? i n not surprised. i think everything pointed to this outcome. the argument indicated that the judge is inclined to disallow this motion to dismiss and i expected the decision and it came quickly. i5 dismiss and i expected the decision and it came quickly. and it came quickly. is that partly because of and it came quickly. is that partly because of the and it came quickly. is that partly because of the judge s and it came quickly. is that partly. because of the judge s questioning of prince andrew s lawyers at the time or is it because of the basis of his case? the questioning of his lawyers was really to the point and expressed the judge s scepticism about the arguments. the argume
is credible. 50 be for the jury to decide who story is credible- be for the jury to decide who story is credible. ., ., , , , ., we is credible. so what happens now? we ro into this is credible. so what happens now? we go into this discovery is credible. so what happens now? we go into this discovery phase is credible. so what happens now? we go into this discovery phase where - go into this discovery phase where all of this information is exchanged, and exchange of documents and depositions and after that phase is concluded you have an opportunity for summaryjudgment which is an opportunity for each party to essentially say there is no issues of here so that the court resolve this. the court can say there are no issues which would be unlikely in a case like this. issues which would be unlikely in a case like this. . . case like this. when you say issues of case like this. when you say issues of material case like this. when you say issues of material fact, - case like this.
going to be facts of the spirit, it s hard to imagine that there are no material facts of dispute. but thatis no material facts of dispute. but that is a stage in the case where the rules allow for and after the summaryjudgment you move into a trial phase. in this case the judge has indicated he would set the entire schedule, looking forward to a trial in the last quarter of 2022, sometime between september and december of 2022. should the prince and his lawyers either be unwilling or unable to come to some sort of settlement before that, it is entirely possible we could see prince andrew having to give evidence in a trial? absolutely. the case would first have to provide information in a
throw it out at this stage by acquiescing to prince andrew s argument that there is no argument here, the settlement releases prince andrew and it can t be sued by virginia giuffre. so, this is really significant, it lines up with my interpretation of the hearing we had last week, judge kaplan s views in the hearing were very sceptical, i thought, of prince andrew s arguments, so i m not surprised this is what he s decided based on how he was approaching these arguments last week, but it is a very very significant. now we all move forward to the phase where we have discovery or disclosure of documents and evidence and i don t think prince andrew would ever have expected to be facing in order to hand over documents relating to this suit. i think it s really significant and an important day in terms ofjustice. break it down for us, i write out some of the wording of the judgment