Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay initial £9.5m to Daily Mail publisher
The judge said the claimants failed to prove unlawful information gathering, and the publisher’s costs total about £34.5 million.
- On Friday, a High Court judge ordered Prince Harry and six other claimants to pay an initial £9.5 million to Associated Newspapers Limited by August 28, 2026, following dismissal of their invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.
- Mr Justice Matthew Nicklin dismissed the case last month after an 11-week trial, ruling the allegations were "speculative and substantially inferential" and "lacked a proper evidential foundation."
- Facing a potential £34 million total liability, the claimants are personally responsible for remaining millions because their legal insurance covers only £16.2 million.
- ANL characterized the ruling as "a devastating critique of an attempt to destroy a newspaper and the reputations of its journalists, editors and executives."
- Harry and Meghan Markle will relocate from the United States to the United Kingdom later this month, following the public announcement made Wednesday.
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While he is about to return to the United Kingdom with his wife Meghan Markle and their two children, Prince Harry is facing a hell of a blow. British justice has just ordered the payment of an astronomical sum following the failure of his trial against the Daily Mail.
Prince Harry, others ordered to pay millions over failed lawsuit
LONDON — Britain's Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other high-profile claimants face paying millions of dollars out of their own pockets to cover the legal costs of the Daily Mail's publisher after a judge ruled their failed privacy lawsuits…
The complainants had failed to prove before the London High Court that the tabloid had intercepted voice messages or listened to telephone conversations to feed about 50 articles published between 1993 and 2018.
The High Court of Justice of London ordered Prince Harry, Elton John and five other persons to pay an initial sum of £ 9.5 million, or around € 11 million, to cover the legal expenses of the British tabloid The Daily Mail. "The Court ordered the plaintiffs to make a provisional payment of £ 9.544,355" by August 28, as indicated in a summary of the court ruling. At the beginning of the year the latter lost a lawsuit concerning the illicit collect…
A total of seven public figures may pay a total of one and a half billion forints in legal costs.
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