Conor McGregor Megathread *Mod Warning in OP Updated 20th April*

The judge awarded her costs from the cowardly Rapist. And he has also ruled that Nikita doesn't have to pay the most virile Patsy in Ireland's costs. A good day.

Proper and correct decision

And below opinion from judge so important

Both men had filed a joint defence and were “in lock step” with each other and the jury finding that Mr Lawrence had not assaulted Ms Hand must have arisen because the jury did not believe Mr Lawrence’s claim he had consensual sex with Ms Hand after Mr McGregor left the hotel, he said.

Is the thinking here that McGregor + Lawrence made up a story about Lawrence having consensual sex with Nikita Hand after McGregor so it would cast doubt on McGregor raping her because that happened first? And obviously the jury didnt buy it...

She gets 80% of the costs, which were over a million. She won't be left with much after paying the other 20% out of her 250k.

A go fund would sort that out in minutes I reckon.

exactly..

Lawrence will pay his fees and she will pay her fees in relation to her claim against Lawrence.

Her fees for her claim against McGregor will be paid by McGregor.. she also will receive 250k award.

Her only costs are: The effect of the orders is that Ms Hand’s legal bill is confined to her own lawyers’s costs in dealing with her claims against Mr Lawrence.

Pretty relevant detail for a fair few on this thread. It was as much to catch out Lawrence in terms of why they went after him.

Spot on. She went to the hotel for one reason, well maybe two or three reasons. But sur shes completely innocent. Right……

Mod Edit: Warned for victim blaming

yes, completely innocent to any half-decent human being. Of course, some toerags believe a woman cannot say no once they’ve gotten in any way intimate with a man. It’s his “right” to go as far as he wants..

This is what you’re excusing: He said the jury had concluded that Mr Lawrence did not have consensual sex with Ms Hand and that the men had concocted the story between themselves.

on a separate point: aren’t legal fees fooking obscene in this country.. greed, it’s an awful trait.

I think it did (we did have that book around the place and he may well have read it)

It was the only time I suggested to him that he should stop doing that as his behaviour was quite alarming to me (strange gurning faces).

He ignored me and I lost touch so I don't know if it had a bad effect.

He was studying zoology and used to raid the botanic gardens as well (some of them were very common household plants (I kept on the grass).

Why?

The aren't SVP.

If there is a shortfall someone will have to pay.

I can't see how the jury awarded €250k if they fully believed Nikita Hand's account of the assault and also believed that Lawrence colluded with McGregor to fabricate his version of events. There is no sense in that.

Surely if they did believe that, they would have awarded "punitive" damages against McGregor and gone to town on him with the monetary figure. The jury probably hadn't a clue what to think but knew which way the wind was blowing in the country on this and didn't want to go back to their workplace having "not believed" Nikita with all of the campaigning going on around this.

Anyone who has only been following this through the media and is certain as to what has happened, they've lost all objectivity on this - it is just not possible to know with any degree of certainly what happened that day. A lot of groupthink going on. This is trial by social media.

How just is it for an extremely high profile individual to go through a public jury trial where the outcome is decided on the balance of probabilities for something so serious and highly charged as rape?

This wasn't a no-win-no-fee, or free legal aid job. It was a gamble.

And 80% of the costs will be paid by McGregor. Any outstanding fees for witnesses, experts, reports, legal etc that were called by her side will be covered by her. It won't be a headline for obvious reasons, but she won't be walking away with anything close to the headline figure.

As someone said, she can setup a GoFund page and write a begging letter to cover the rest. They have pages for everything these days.