Overview

• Perry is scheduled to testify on August 26 after the court ordered that there will be no further continuances.
• The judge castigated her legal team for attempting a surprise video appearance and for trying to rearrange the testimony order due to her tour schedule.
• A request to call Orlando Bloom as a witness was rejected, with the judge cautioning against creating a celebrity spectacle.
• The dispute pits Carl Westcott’s claim that medication impaired his consent to sell the property against Perry’s roughly €5 million damages claim over alleged undisclosed defects.
• Westcott is reported to be in critical condition with Huntington’s disease as the case proceeds.