Prince Harry Awarded “Substantial” Further Damages From Mirror Group As Phone Hacking Court Battle Comes To An End; Duke Of Sussex Hits Out At Piers Morgan
deadline.comPrince Harry has been awarded “substantial” further damages in the remaining part of his phone hacking claim against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the Duke of Sussex’s barrister has told a court, as the prince hits out at former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan In the past few minutes, London’s High Court has heard that MGN, which publishes The Daily Mirror against which Harry said he was the victim of more than 140 instances of illegal news gathering, has settled with the prince.
MGN will make a costs payment of around £400,000 ($500,000), the BBC reported, with further costs to be assessed. Harry was previously awarded £140,000 in damages after a court ruled he was the victim of phone hacking by the group.
The court found in December that 15 of 33 sample articles were the “product of phone hacking … or other unlawful information gathering.” The BBC reported that the judge also criticized the “extremely confrontational way” the two sides had approached the legal battle, which had been rumbling for a while.
Harry was by no means the only claimant and there were around 100 others, including the likes of Corrie actors Michael Turner and Nikkie Sanderson.
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