A high-profile American venture capitalist has been held in contempt for a ‘deliberate, cynical and continuing’ breach of a court order in a £200,000 dispute with London firm Farrer & Co.
Julie Meyer, the founder of Ariadne Capital, was given a suspended six-month sentence last month for failing to provide financial documents and refusing to attend court for debtor questioning in person.
Last week, Mr Justice Kerr issued a warrant for Meyer – who is believed to be in Zurich, Switzerland – to be brought to the court after she again failed to attend. He refused an application for permission to appeal against the contempt finding.
The judge said that some of the evidence filed on Meyer’s behalf was ‘to the effect that the defendant is a very important person, too important for the courts of England and Wales to take precedence over her other interests,’ adding: ‘That does not impress me … I regard it as an aggravating feature of the contempt.’
Meyer did not attend a hearing in London as ordered last month
Source: Alamy
Kerr also awarded Farrer & Co £14,500 for its costs of the contempt hearing in January plus another £9,000 for last week’s hearing.
Farrer & Co brought a claim against Meyer in late 2019 for around £187,000. The sum which swelled to more than £200,000 including costs as the firm pursues Meyer for its unpaid fees.
Meyer, 55, did not attend a hearing in London as ordered last month, saying she was unable to travel because she had conjunctivitis and was unvaccinated against coronavirus.
However, Kerr said the medical evidence was ‘inadequate and unconvincing’, adding that Meyer’s health ‘does not prevent the defendant litigating when she wants to make an application herself’.
The judge found Meyer in contempt and sentenced her to six months’ imprisonment, saying Meyer’s belated suggestion that she could be breaking Swiss criminal law by providing the documents sought was ‘far fetched in the extreme’.
Meyer ‘has shown herself in these proceedings to be a selfish and untrustworthy person [and] her word counts for nothing if it suits her to break it’, Kerr said in his rulinglast month.
At last week’s hearing, the judge rejected a ‘request for leniency’ made by lawyers on behalf of the absent Meyer, certified her failure to attend and issued a warrant for her to be brought to court.
i think I have spoken about this on rof before but I have had a number of interactions with her over the years, principally around various investments she was exhorting me to make into Ariadne. She is a very very odd individual and I declined on every occasion. This doesn’t surprise me at all.
Interestingly I’m still fb friends with her and she’s in Switzerland still posting nonsense about her business stuff and how wonderful life is. Proper psychopath stuff to not be affected by any of this
She approached me a couple of years back to invest £50m into Ariadne. Lolled and politely declined at the time. I think she was on the online version of DD at the time.
She (or her company) seems to get into a dispute with every law firm she ever uses. I think I counted 6 law firms last time I checked. Does nobody Google a client or ask for money on account? How does she keep getting away with it?
He took an imaginary position in something imaginary instead obvs.
sage decision tbf
much better 2 make imaginary money on an imaginary successful investment, than lose imaginary money on an imaginary bad investment. ’preci7ing that of course the real winners, as eva, r the psychiatric nurses
I looked at that Twitter page (and the rest). Is she insane? Is she big news in some business circles? Do people read that sort of gibberish and think “she has a point”?
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Was she on dragons den? In receipt of taxpayers money?
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She was on the online version. A bigger case of emperor's new clothes you would be hard pressed to find.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10539801/High-Court-issues-arrest-warrant-Julie-Meyer-following-dispute-Farrar-Co.html
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This is most, most amusing.
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/entrepreneur-in-contempt-over-200000-…
A high-profile American venture capitalist has been held in contempt for a ‘deliberate, cynical and continuing’ breach of a court order in a £200,000 dispute with London firm Farrer & Co.
Julie Meyer, the founder of Ariadne Capital, was given a suspended six-month sentence last month for failing to provide financial documents and refusing to attend court for debtor questioning in person.
Last week, Mr Justice Kerr issued a warrant for Meyer – who is believed to be in Zurich, Switzerland – to be brought to the court after she again failed to attend. He refused an application for permission to appeal against the contempt finding.
The judge said that some of the evidence filed on Meyer’s behalf was ‘to the effect that the defendant is a very important person, too important for the courts of England and Wales to take precedence over her other interests,’ adding: ‘That does not impress me … I regard it as an aggravating feature of the contempt.’
Meyer did not attend a hearing in London as ordered last month
Source: Alamy
Kerr also awarded Farrer & Co £14,500 for its costs of the contempt hearing in January plus another £9,000 for last week’s hearing.
Farrer & Co brought a claim against Meyer in late 2019 for around £187,000. The sum which swelled to more than £200,000 including costs as the firm pursues Meyer for its unpaid fees.
Meyer, 55, did not attend a hearing in London as ordered last month, saying she was unable to travel because she had conjunctivitis and was unvaccinated against coronavirus.
However, Kerr said the medical evidence was ‘inadequate and unconvincing’, adding that Meyer’s health ‘does not prevent the defendant litigating when she wants to make an application herself’.
The judge found Meyer in contempt and sentenced her to six months’ imprisonment, saying Meyer’s belated suggestion that she could be breaking Swiss criminal law by providing the documents sought was ‘far fetched in the extreme’.
Meyer ‘has shown herself in these proceedings to be a selfish and untrustworthy person [and] her word counts for nothing if it suits her to break it’, Kerr said in his ruling last month.
At last week’s hearing, the judge rejected a ‘request for leniency’ made by lawyers on behalf of the absent Meyer, certified her failure to attend and issued a warrant for her to be brought to court.
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Wow
i think I have spoken about this on rof before but I have had a number of interactions with her over the years, principally around various investments she was exhorting me to make into Ariadne. She is a very very odd individual and I declined on every occasion. This doesn’t surprise me at all.
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I'd remembered there were a few roftypes who had had dealings with her in the past. Tom Winnifrifth has been gunning for her for years.....
https://www.shareprophets.com/views/60861/julie-meyer-mbe-now-arrest-warrant-issued-by-uk-high-court
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Interestingly I’m still fb friends with her and she’s in Switzerland still posting nonsense about her business stuff and how wonderful life is. Proper psychopath stuff to not be affected by any of this
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;-0
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She approached me a couple of years back to invest £50m into Ariadne. Lolled and politely declined at the time. I think she was on the online version of DD at the time.
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would
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https://www.shareprophets.com/views/60862/why-didn-t-the-deadwood-press-go-after-julie-meyer-as-i-didhere-is-a-clue-from-city-am
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Of course she did jigga. What did you do with the 50m instead?
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He took an imaginary position in something imaginary instead obvs.
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If there was anything left of Jerry Garcia to turn in his grave he’d have done it at that namecheck from her. JFC what an UFH of a human.
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She (or her company) seems to get into a dispute with every law firm she ever uses. I think I counted 6 law firms last time I checked. Does nobody Google a client or ask for money on account? How does she keep getting away with it?
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sage decision tbf
much better 2 make imaginary money on an imaginary successful investment, than lose imaginary money on an imaginary bad investment. ’preci7ing that of course the real winners, as eva, r the psychiatric nurses
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https://twitter.com/JulieMarieMeyer/status/1500616705185308678
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"Kerr also awarded Farrer & Co £14,500 for its costs of the contempt hearing in January plus another £9,000 for last week’s hearing."]
Good lord. They've gone downhill. Imagine...
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Never heard of the woman, but not paying Julian's bill is really not cricket.
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I'm still not really any the wiser, but she does have a nice dress sense.
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Lollercopters at OoD
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I looked at that Twitter page (and the rest). Is she insane? Is she big news in some business circles? Do people read that sort of gibberish and think “she has a point”?
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lollercopterframe
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She's off again....
https://twitter.com/JulieMarieMeyer/status/1504207773118177288?t=1PWNyg2ZoNKVoV-RQlZmeQ&s=19
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Lovely woman
Such a woman should have many strong sons
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https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/706.pdf
Are there any firms left which she hasn't at some point been a client of?
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