Jamie Carpenter KC, representing Mrs Vardy, argued that Mrs Rooney’s legal strategy involved deliberately understating her costs to create an unfair advantage, stating, 'Even if acceptable to understate incurred costs, you have to say you have done that. You cannot keep that to yourself and then try to gain an advantage to say the other side's costs are outrageous. It was intended to mislead and it did mislead.' This point underscores a critical accusation of impropriety in legal practices.
Mr Carpenter further claimed that Mrs Rooney's claimed legal bill, exceeding 1.8 million, was more than three times her agreed costs budget of about 540,000, arguing that the earlier understatement of some costs was 'improper and unreasonable,' stating this serious misconduct should warrant a reduction in Mrs Vardy’s payment responsibilities, highlighting the importance of transparency in financial disclosures during legal proceedings.
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