A pensioner accused of 'attacking' her daughter-in-law with a chair during a family feud over a £50m family caravan park empire has won her latest battle in the high court.
Michael Loveridge and his parents are wrestling for control of a 'solvent, highly profitable and cash-rich' chain of caravan parks and a motor home sales business based in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and worth millions.
A bitter schism has grown between Michael, 51 - who says he has spent the last 20 years building the business from 'modest' beginnings - and his mother Ivy and 78-year-old father Alldey, who claim to have themselves been the driving force, setting up the empire when their son was just a toddler.
Relations have become so toxic within the wealthy family that Michael tried to get his mother, 76, jailed - claiming she breached high court injunctions which he argued prevented her from 'interfering' with the family business.
Ivy denied any wrongdoing and he eventually dropped his bid to imprison her after the interim injunctions were overturned by the Appeal Court.
The latest development has seen the family row over who should pay for Ivy's £23,000 legal fees, with Birmingham Crown Court Judge David Cooke previously making the order that she should cover her own costs of her son's bid to jail her.
This was because, he said, it was 'likely' that some of the allegations of contempt against
