There have been so many instances of blatant irregularity, and downright travesties of justice revealed in
Nicol’s comments, findings, and rulings during that fiasco of a trial, it’s almost as though a genuine search for truth never even occurred. Worse, truth was not what Nicol wanted, nor could he handle it when slapped in the face with it over and over again. Hence his erratic, baseless, biased rulings. Rulings that ultimately and repeatedly shone a glaring spotlight on the lack of fairness in Mr. Justice Nicol’s High Court.
The closer we look at Nicol’s arrogant dismissal of fact and witness testimony we are made to cringe: audio tapes disregarded as “hearsay”, likened to some sort of written report documenting another person’s words?? There were two people in the courtroom to attest to the veracity of the tapes - the two people who made them. This is not the childhood game called “Telephone”. To toss out critical, authenticated audiotape testimony is overbearing superiority at its most obvious and damaging.
When the Libel ruling was disclosed, Schillings sounded its outrage, loud and clear: Johnny would be foolish not to appeal. What do we take from that? Did Schillings
not do it’s absolute
for Johnny the first time around? Did they grossly underestimate the complexity of this case? They seemed unsure how, and were ultimately unable, to derail the impact of the sly, needling, persistent QC Wass. Were they unaware of, and totally taken off-guard by, Nicol’s all-in, women-must-be-believed bias in favor of AH, and how that might figure in Nicol’s desire to enhance his own legacy in light of his pending retirement?
OR, at some point, despite all the smiles and hugging engaged in on the courthouse steps, did Schillings (or perhaps David Sherborne himself) see the writing on the wall and warn Johnny well before he was officially told?
Theresa and 
