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Kevin Spacey Avoids Default Judgment in Sexual Assault Civil Suit After Lawyer ‘Error’

Kevin Spacey will return to court in the U.K. next year in a civil sexual assault case after his lawyers overturned a default judgement.

Kevin Spacey ’s lawyers were in court in London Tuesday, May 7, cleaning up a mistake that would’ve left the actor facing a default judgement declaring him liable in a civil sexual assault suit, Variety reports. That prompted the judge to hand down a default judgement in favor of Spacey’s accuser earlier this year, which would’ve sent the case immediately to the damages phase if it’d been upheld. In court Tuesday, Spacey’s lawyer, Adam Speker, said they missed the filing date because of a “genuine error.” He went on to argue that the default judgement was unfair and should be overturned because the accuser had already been “disbelieved on oath by a jury.”

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