In a fractious opening hearing within the case – introduced by Virginia Roberts over claims she was compelled to have intercourse with the Duke when she was 17 – Andrew’s authorized staff tried to persuade Judge Lewis Kaplan papers had not been served and the case ought to be thrown out. The judge in the Prince Andrew sex assault trial told the Duke to ‘cut the technicalities’ last evening as he gave his rivals an extra week to serve him with legal papers. In most circumstances, the events meet with a decide no less than as quickly as at the …