Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay the courtroom prices related to the lawsuit filed in opposition to him by a lady who claimed the UFC star sexually assaulted her at a Dublin, Eire lodge in 2018.
On Thursday, Mr. Justice Alexander Owens issued the order for McGregor to pay prices incurred by Nikita Hand after a jury discovered him liable in a civil motion introduced in opposition to the veteran fighter. The authorized prices might reportedly attain €1 million (roughly $1.05 million in U.S. {dollars}) in response to the Irish Instances.
The authorized prices come along with damages awarded to Hand with McGregor ordered to pay €248,603.60 (approx. $258,440).
The choose did reject an software from Hand’s attorneys requesting prices awarded on the “solicitor and shopper foundation,” which is the best quantity doable.
James Lawrence, who was tried alongside McGregor however not discovered liable of sexual assault in the identical case, won’t be allowed to pursue authorized prices in opposition to Hand, per the choose’s orders.
Through the newest proceedings, the choose additionally addressed continued outbursts from McGregor on social media the place he issued quite a few statements attacking the decision whereas revealing plans to attraction the judgment in opposition to him. Owens mentioned on Thursday that he hadn’t determined what he would possibly do about McGregor’s statements however he might probably cost him with contempt of courtroom and known as his actions “extremely irresponsible.”
The choose added that McGregor was a “very wealthy man” and will afford to pay any penalty incurred from a doable contempt of courtroom cost.
Following an 11 day trial, McGregor was discovered liable by the jury after Hand claimed that he “raped and battered” her throughout an assault in 2018. McGregor and his attorneys countered by stating that the “intercourse with [McGregor] was athletic, bodily” however fully consensual.
Within the aftermath of the trial, McGregor launched a number of statements together with one the place he expressed regrets for his infidelity after spending greater than a decade together with his fiancée Dee Devlin, who can be the mom to his 4 youngsters, however he vehemently denied assaulting Hand.
“Individuals need to hear from me, I wanted time,” McGregor wrote in November. “I do know I made errors. Six years in the past, I ought to have by no means responded to her outreaches. I ought to have shut the social gathering down. I ought to by no means have stepped out on the lady I like essentially the most on this planet. That’s all on me.
“As a lot as I remorse it, the whole lot that occurred that night time was consensual and all of the witnesses current swore to that underneath oath. I’ve instructed my authorized crew to attraction the choice.”
Devlin additionally issued her personal fiery assertion taking intention at Hand’s accusations following the conclusion of the trial.
McGregor’s attorneys said Thursday that it was “extremely probably” an attraction could be filed within the case.
Because the conclusion of the trial, the fallout for McGregor has continued with quite a few enterprise companions chopping ties with him together with Correct No. 12 — the whiskey model he began and later offered for a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}. Following the decision, Proximo Spirits, the present proprietor of the Correct No. 12 label, mentioned the model would not be related to McGregor shifting ahead and said that he additionally wasn’t even a minority proprietor within the whiskey.
