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“It is important for lawyers, for law firms, companies, people who have power and privilege, to use their resources to fight back,” she said.

When the action was filed in February, the actor's lawyers called them "frivolous", saying: "Mr Cage does not control Weston's behaviour in any manner and is not responsible for Weston's alleged assault of his mother."

She said: "While we were at the hospital, he was responding to emails from the lawyers saying: 'We have just had a stillbirth.'"

“The conduct of the involved deputies was objectively reasonable,” the county’s lawyers wrote in their legal response two years ago, adding that the “deputies were acting in self-defense and defense of others.”

Mr Hall's lawyer, Lewis Colbourne, said there were "two innocent parties in court".