![]() ![]() Prince Harry, 38, told the High Court he had been thinking about how he could defend Meghan without involving the Royal family’s own legal team. Harry’s lawyer has argued that he should be granted an exception to the time limit, because the publishers lied and deceived to hide the illegal actions.The Duke of Sussex has revealed that he was motivated to sue the tabloid newspapers over phone hacking in order to protect his wife. Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and Associated Newspapers Ltd., which owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, have argued the cases should be thrown out, because Harry failed to file the lawsuits within a six-year deadline. Judges are deciding whether Harry’s two other phone hacking cases will proceed to trial. Mirror Group has paid more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to settle hundreds of unlawful information-gathering claims, and printed an apology to phone hacking victims in 2015. Owner Rupert Murdoch shut down the paper and several of his executives faced criminal trials. It became an existential crisis for the industry after the revelation in 2011 that the News of the World had hacked the phone of a slain 13-year-old girl. Hacking that involved guessing or using default security codes to listen to celebrities’ cellphone voice messages was widespread at British tabloids in the early years of this century. In the absence of concrete evidence, Sherborne said the judge to make inferences of skullduggery based on the type of information being reported, the murkiness of the sourcing, and whether the writer of an article was known to have relied on unlawful means in the past.īut Green said there was little to no evidence to support Harry’s case. Sherborne, however, said phone hacking and unlawful information-gathering were carried out on such a widespread scale by Mirror Group that it was implausible it was only used once against Harry. The publisher admitted and apologized for hiring a private eye to dig up dirt on one of Harry’s nights out at a bar, but the resulting 2004 article headlined “Sex on the beach with Harry” is not among the 33 in the trial. Mirror Group said it used documents, public statements and sources to legally report on the prince - with one exception. Stories about Harry were big sellers for the newspapers, and some 2,500 articles had covered all facets of his life during the time period of the case - 1996 to 2011 - from injuries at school to experimenting with marijuana and cocaine to the ups and downs with girlfriends, Sherborne said. ![]() Green said he plans to question the Duke for a day and a half. While Harry’s memoir and other recent media ventures have been an effort to reclaim his life’s narrative, which had largely been shaped by the media, he will have no such control when he faces cross-examination in a courtroom full of reporters taking down every word. ![]() press, including allegedly racist articles, led him and his wife, Meghan, to flee to the U.S. He has blamed paparazzi for causing the car crash that killed his mother, Princess Diana, and said harassment and intrusion by the U.K. press - and sometimes at his own royal relatives for what he sees as their collusion with the media - runs through his memoir, “Spare,” and interviews conducted by Oprah Winfrey and others. ![]()
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