Trial judge to deliver long-awaited ruling online in case between actor and the Sun newspaper

The high court in London is to hand down its ruling on the libel case between Johnny Depp and the Sun newspaper at 10am on Monday, four months on from the courtroom battle between the actor and his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Trial judge Mr Justice Nicol will deliver his long-awaited ruling via the internet. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is suing the tabloid’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over a 2018 article which labelled him a “wife-beater”.

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