Prince Harry hit with £9.5m Daily Mail legal bill
Prince Harry and six other high-profile figures have been ordered to pay £9.54m towards the Daily Mail publisher’s legal costs after losing their long-running privacy case. Judge Matthew Nicklin Nicklin ruled on Friday that the claimants must make an interim payment of £9,544,355 to Associated Newspapers by 28 August, after the publisher ran up costs [...]
Seven prominent individuals, including Prince Harry, have been ordered to pay £9.54 million towards the legal costs of the Daily Mail publisher in a lost privacy case, according to a ruling by Judge Matthew Nicklin. The claimants, which also include Sir Elton John, Liz Hurley, Sadie Frost, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, and former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Simon Hughes, must make an interim payment of £9,544,355 by August 28th.
The total legal fees incurred by Associated Newspapers for the case stand at nearly £34.5 million. Judge Nicklin deemed the pursuit of the case to be "unreasonable to a high degree," citing the breadth of claims, speculative allegations, and failure to narrow them as the case progressed. The ruling imposes a more favorable assessment basis for Associated Newspapers, which could increase the overall amount they ultimately recover.
While Harry is not personally required to pay the £9.54 million, the final allocation of costs between individual and common costs remains to be decided. Associated Newspapers hailed the judgment as a "complete and obvious whitewash," and the claimants are understood to have insurance covering around £16 million of their exposure to Associated's costs.
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