Prince Harry’s courtroom defeat could drive up legal insurance premiums Insurance Prince Harry’s High Court defeat to the owner of the Daily Mail could send legal insurance premiums soaring, experts have warned, after the Duke and six other high-profile figures were left on the hook for an uninsured bill of £19m. The Duke of Sussex, Sir Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, actresses Liz Hurley [...]
Prince Harry braces for eye watering legal bill after Daily Mail defeat Lawsuit The litigation costs Prince Harry and a group of six other household names will have to pay the Daily Mail’s publisher are set to be decided on Friday after the group lost their high-profile phone-hacking case. The celebrity group waged a long-running legal battle against Associated Newspapers over allegations of illegal information gathering and phone [...]
Hacking scandal? Inside Prince Harry’s costly legal battle over privacy Media The phone hacking scandal, which first emerged 15 years ago, has cost the owners of Britain’s most prominent newspapers over a billion pounds in legal damages, keeping law firms and the courts busy for more than a decade, writes Maria Ward-Brennan. The phone hacking saga returned to the headlines in spectacular style this week after [...]
Prince Harry defeated in phone hacking legal battle against Daily Mail publisher July 7, 2026 Prince Harry and a group of six other high-profile household names have lost a long-running legal battle against Associated Newspapers over allegations of illegal information gathering, including phone hacking, after an 11-week trial earlier this year. Mr Justice Nicklin said in a 436-page judgment the group of claimants had failed to prove the allegations and [...]