The judge said that, as of April, Parry’s costs were estimated to be £715,361, while Gourlay’s were £487,132.
She ordered Winehouse to pay interim payments to each of the women – £569,330 to Parry and £394,521 to Gourlay – within the next two weeks.
He must also pay the women’s legal costs on an indemnity basis, which means those recovering their costs generally get a higher percentage of what they spent than is usual, and it is often awarded when one side has behaved particularly unreasonably.
Clarke said that in pursuing his claim, Winehouse had “deliberately turned this case into large-scale and expensive litigation, in circumstances calculated to exert commercial pressure on the defendants to settle on his terms”.
She added: “The fact that he knowingly and deliberately did this to two young women who had stood faithfully by Amy, and also by him and his family, and who had demonstrated their honesty and integrity over many years, makes his unreasonable conduct particularly serious.”
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