Overview
- Mrs Justice Christina Lambert provisionally listed three High Court claims for October 2026, with case management to decide a single combined trial or sequential hearings.
- The suits are brought by three men over alleged assaults linked to Spacey’s Old Vic tenure between 2004 and 2015, and two of the claimants were involved in his 2023 criminal case in which he was acquitted.
- One claimant, actor Ruari Cannon, has waived anonymity and is also suing the Old Vic theatre.
- Claimants’ counsel urges a single trial to avoid repeated evidence, while Spacey’s legal team argues for separate proceedings and says one case (LNP) belongs in the county court.
- Spacey denies the allegations, has filed defences in two cases, and has yet to file a defence in a third claim lodged in September.