EPAA civil case presented by four women against Andrew Tate is believed to be a first legal one, a lawyer said for his accusers.
Women accuse Tate of rape, assault and coercive control between 2013 and 2015. One says he threatened to kill her, another said he made him kill anyone who would speak to him, and a third says he convinced Herers.
In written presentations, Anne Studd KC said he believed that this was the first case of his son in which it is argued that coercive control was equivalent to “intentional infiction of damage”, a similar legal concept.
Tate denies the claims, saying that they are a “package of lies” and “gross manufactures.”
Women seek damage “derived from assaults, batteries and inflicence of intentional damage,” says their civil claim.
A case management hearing was a hero in London on Tuesday, which deals with preliminary and logistics matters.
The court heard that a trial could be held in early 2027, and that it could last three weeks.
Judge Richard Armstrong told court that the four women were “looking for damage that can reach six figures.”
Testing the intentional infiction of damages means that claimants could receive additional damage.
The coercive control, said Mrs. Studd, was “a form of preparation and manipulation in which the victim becomes less and less capable of responding in what could be perceived normally.”
He added that a victim “may not leave even if the door is open.”
Vanessa Marshall KC, acting for Tate, told the Court that “they accept in this day and age that coercive and controlling behavior exists”, but that “it really was not the problem in this case.”
The case refers to the incidents that the four women allege tok in Luton and Hitchin.
Two of the claimants worked for the Tate webcam business in 2015, while the other two were in relations with him in 2013 and 2014.
Three of the women previously informed Tate to the Police, but in 2019 the Crown Prosecutor’s Office (CPS) decided not to present criminal charges.
Tate denies all accusations and argues that women now cannot take legal actions against him because he has spent too much time, and emails, text messages and other potential tests would have been lost.
His lawyer Andrew Ford said previously in a statement that women’s accusations “are vehemently denied and will be complete in court.”
“When the matter was sent to the CPS, they concluded that there was not a sufficient perspective of conviction and decided not to charge Tate for any crime,” Ford added.
