The actor has 21 days to pay the fees.
At a hearing in April, Fox’s lawyers asked for the case to be decided by a jury rather than a judge, which is highly unusual in defamation cases.
However, Justice Nicklin said in his written judgment: ‘The defendant has not satisfied me that a fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real possibility that a judge trying this case alone would suffer from “involuntary bias”.’ He added: ‘The fair-minded and informed observer must be taken to know that, faithful to his/her judicial oath, the judge in this case would be required to apply the law to the determination of the issues in the case, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.’
‘I think this places any trial judge in the invidious position of having to define ‘racism’ in the 21st century, where I am asking that judge to adopt a common-sense definition completely at odds with the Equal Treatment Bench Book, a document which dictates to judges to think about ‘racism’ in a particular way and act accordingly in their courts every single day.Fox’s lawyer Marzec had argued that a jury was more likely to be diverse than a single High Court judge.
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