In a lengthy written document, her lawyers argued: "That holding, if allowed to stand, undoubtedly will have a chilling effect on other women who wish to speak about abuse involving powerful men."

The actress's team went on to note the previous unsuccessful libel suit the Pirates of the Caribbean star brought against The Sun newspaper in 2018, for calling him a "wife-beater" in print. Suggesting the subsequent, separate US libel case "should never have gone to trial" because "another court had already concluded that Depp abused Heard on multiple occasions".

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