Chapter 189 - Back in Court (3)

12 February, Municipal Courthouse, City K

As the garment bags were being walked into court, Lexi, looked across the court aisle and cold see Madam Mo tensing, but also wondering what was going on. If she wanted to play her games and try and hurt her business, the gloves were off. This was something she had built with her own hard work, without family help. While she was willing to be respectful of parents of friends, those who were willing to side with her former in-laws to destroy her life with Dominic, then they did not reserve the rest.

Lexi turned and smiled at Matthew and observing what was happening Matthew knew that Lexi's lawyers would play their trump card, in the actual dresses rather than the fakes. His wife was so predictable. He lent over to Joseph and quietly said "Just wait the fireworks are about to hit."

"And Boss, we both know my mother-in-law will not be able to stop herself reacting. This will be fun to watch."

"And you will be giving a full report to your wife?"

"Of course, this is something her mother deserved for being so arrogant to Lexi."

The two of them stopped their whispering to each other and turned back to watch proceedings. The garment bags were hung on two racks that hat been brought in, two bags on one and four bags on the other and were being slowly unzipped.

The senior lawyer in Lexi's team said "Sir, truth is always a defence to the counter-claims made by Madam Mo. The person in addition to my associate who carried in the garment bags is the stylist who was tasked my Madam Mo to obtain the dress that is in question. She has made a statement has been provided to the court. The two dresses she carried in, and which are on the one rack together, are the two dresses she presented Madam Mo to select from for the charity event where this matter became public. Her statement clearly states that she told Madam Mo that they were not LY Couture dresses, and that despite her request she was unable to obtain them."

"On the other rack are four dresses, which my associate brought in were obtained this morning from LY Studio by my associated. Two are the actual LY Couture dresses and there are two further LY Couture dresses for comparison. The bags themselves, have logs that record when these dresses leave the studio and return, and who had them. The actual couture dress bags do not have Madam Mo's name recorded on them. Plus, if you compare the two dresses to the other four, they are missing the trademark features that are put into every LY Couture design."

After a pause for dramatic effect, the senior lawyer continued saying "These dresses, combined with all the other material filed, including the doc.u.ments just provided that confirm the collecting of the dresses this morning by my associate, in our view are sufficient for the court to make an immediate determination in the matter. That will prevent ongoing reputational harm to our client and her business while addressing your concerns about ongoing harm to Madam Mo's reputation."

Realising that her claims and manipulations to have the husband of a friend hear the case were about to spectacularly fail, Madam Mo stood up and yelled to the stylist "You lying b*tch. This is your fault, if you had done what I told you to do this would never have happened. You lied to me and now are costing me."

Seeing that his mother-in-law was about to attack a woman for telling the truth, Joseph stood up and moved over to stand in-front of Madam Mo before calmly saying, "Keep going, mother…"

Given how incensed Madam Mo was at the situation turning on her so quickly, she took a swing and hit Joseph, who responded "Thank you mother, given you just hit a military officer in uniform, who by the way is here in the course of his duty, I have to hand you over to the military for what you just did." With that Joseph, took her by the arms, and started to take her out of the court room.

The judge, on the bench sat there stunned. Having read all the material, all he knew that he could do was to adjourn the matter to allow Madam Mo the opportunity to better defend herself in the case while imposing an embargo in publication of the matter. That was not possible, plus the presence of the dresses was a death nail. "Gentleman, I will allow Madam Mo, time to sort out the other matter, but unless she can provide any evidence to counter the material provided by Miss Yao here, I will have no option but to rule in her favour. Clerk, those dresses please take into court custody. They will remain here until the matter resolves."

Quickly the judge left the courtroom, feeling guilty he could not do what he had intended. Lexi, turned and walked to Matthew saying, "You planned things?"

"What do you think?"

"Damn it Matthew, you need to let me fight my own battles."

"Lexi, did you see me interfere? All I was here to do was to support you. Joseph knows his mother-in-law well and was worried that she would do something to you. He wanted to make sure you were safe. She has brought the trouble on herself in hitting Joseph, but to be realistic all that will happen is she will spend a few hours detailed before receiving a fine as in the end she hit her son-in-law."

Shaking her head, Lexi responded "Next time forget it. You need to let me fight certain battles alone. This was one of them, now you have given her a reason to stir up trouble to assist my former in-laws in their court case."

Not wanting to get even more angry with Matthew, Lexi turned and quickly walked off totally ignoring Matthew.

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