application for a finding of fact hearing which derailed the consensual progress of the case”. Lord Justice Males, sitting alongside King, described it as “a great pity” that when Nervo instructed a new legal team in September 2023 she introduced allegations including reproductive coercion which were “guaranteed to send the temperature of the litigation soaring and to increase the costs substantially”.

Nervo said: “I was deemed as just as unreasonable as him [Pringle]. To this day I haven’t even read that judgment in full because I’m so traumatised by it, I just can’t believe that’s where we ended up.

“You’re so vulnerable. You’re left open, and courts don’t want to see it, courts don’t want to name it. Courts punish you for wanting to name it. It’s just a really sad, sorry, state of affairs.”

As the court of appeal proceedings were in open court it meant they were no longer subject to reporting restrictions and Nervo could speak openly.

Since posting on social media, she says she has been contacted by hundreds of women with similar experiences.