Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black must wait until November to fight charges of common assault in a U.K. court. He is accused of throwing a drink over BBC3 presenter Teddy Edwardes in a London nightclub last year.
He is accused of throwing a drink over BBC3 presenter Teddy Edwardes in a London nightclub last year.
However it turned out that Court 9, where the hearing was set to go ahead, had been double-booked with another high-priority case. After an hour of to-ing and fro-ing Black’s trial was moved to Court 1 with Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring presiding over it. Pointing out that Black had spent significant time and resources flying to the U.K. to stand trial on what the Chief Magistrate agreed were relatively low-level charges, his lawyer Helena Duong urged for the case to be dismissed. She also queried whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the trial and “take another day of the court’s time at significant expense to the public purse and to the defendant.
The judge said the line between dismissing the case and allowing it to be heard was “finely balanced” but ultimately said the prosecution should be allowed to put forward their case. The trial has been rescheduled for early November.
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