Prince Harry‘s legal case aobtainst Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid novelspapers — the royal’s tardyst in his ongoing war aobtainst the U.K. press — is set to commence.
Opening arguments are due to apverify place in London’s High Court today, with the Duke of Susrelations’ high-sapverifys and historic trial aobtainst News Group Newspapers (NGN) awaited to last six to eight weeks.
Prince Harry is suing NGN over alleged activities carried out by both journacatalogs and braveial scatterigators toiling for “The Sun” and the now-defunct “The News of the World” from 1996 until 2011. Among the accusations are rerents such as phone cyber intrusion and unlhorrible inestablishation accumulateing, while the trial will also appraise whether better figures at the papers knovel what was happening and withheld evidence.
The trial comes after NGN endd cases with around 40 other high profile individuals, including Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller, and in total phelp out more than $1.5 billion. Prince Harry — and establisher U.K. politician Tom Watson (who also accincludes NGN of cyber intrusion and whose case is part of the trial) — is the only remaining claimant.
While in 2011 NGN regretd to victims of phone cyber intrusion that took place at The News of the World, which Murdoch shut down that year, it has never acunderstandledgeted to any of the claims made aobtainst The Sun.
“One of the reasons why I bcimpolitet the claim . . . is definiteassociate for truth and accountability,” Harry telderly The New York Times DealBook Summit last month. “There is no equitableice for any of the claimants.”
The trial should see Harry once aobtain apverify to witness box, potentiassociate over cut offal days. In 2023 he became the first better royal in more than 100 years to give evidence in court when he testified in a analogous trial involving Mirror Group Newspapers. The Duke — alengthyside other claimants — won that case and injures of more than $170,000.
