Gina Mok was removed as a member of the prestigious Lansdowne Club, in Mayfair, in November 2021 after twice turning up with Covid-like symptoms.
A glamorous businesswoman who claimed she was 'belittled and bullied' after she was expelled from her £1,235-a-year Mayfair private members club for breaching Covid rules faces a £600,000-plus court bill after losing her fight for reinstatement.
It comes as she is facing another legal bill for nearly £20,000, after she secretly turned her £32,000-a-year flat near Buckingham Palace into an AirBnB against her landlord's rules. Gina Mok was removed as a member of the prestigious Lansdowne Club, in Mayfair, in November 2021 after twice turning up with Covid-like symptoms when she should have been self-isolating
He ordered her to pay the club's lawyers' bills for the trial, with £350,000 up front, which will be on top of £62,000 already ordered following pre-trial hearings and her own budgeted costs of around £200,000. A disciplinary process then took place with the club committee voting to oust her in November of that year, having found that she had broken the law on club premises.
Read More Businesswoman, 46, secretly turned landlord's flat near Buckingham Palace into Airbnb She claimed that the club had 'no reasonable grounds' for her expulsion and that it had not acted in 'good faith,' instead expelling her because they disliked that she had asked 'difficult questions' about alleged 'gross financial mismanagement' at the club.
'I find, on the balance of probabilities, that she broke the law when she went to the club on 26 and 27 October 2021 and, on 27 October 2021, she did so intentionally in the knowledge that she should be in quarantine,' he said. 'The club also found on undisputed evidence that the claimant had flu/Covid symptoms when she visited.
Her claim having been dismissed, the case returned to court yesterday as the club's barrister David Reade KC argued that Ms Mok should be ordered to pay its lawyers' bills for the case. 'She admitted in evidence - and I also found - that her account was false. She did not have an exemption to the Covid restrictions and she said she did.
'She was dishonest to the council members she spoke to, and she admitted that her witness statement included falsehoods. Read More Businesswoman sues Mayfair club over membership termination A judge found against her last year and now, after a failed bid to overturn the decision, she has been left facing an £18,721 charge.
At the trial of the landlord's possession claim last year, its barrister Louis Grandjouan said there were reasons why it did not want it to be sub-let. He said evidence of its Airbnb use included the listings online, 'various reports' to the estate agents and a 'test-purchase' booking of a stay by the landlord's solicitors in March last year.
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