Key statistics from the trial in London’s High Court which commenced on 25 March 2019 and concluded on 15 January 2020
March 4, 2020
Length of trial | 93 days over 10 months |
Number of witnesses | 58 |
Length of MRL’s questioning | 22 days in the witness box over six weeks — the longest cross-examination of the last 25 years (and one of the longest ever in British legal history) |
Length of Opening Submissions (total for all parties) | 1,067 pages |
Length of Closing Submissions (total for all parties) | 4,494 pages |
Number of documents in the corpus | 11.3 million |
Number of lawyers | 30+ |
Number of barristers | 14, of which 4 are leading QCs |
Costs (estimated) | £40+ million |