Why will Prince Harry, Elton John and others pay £9.5m to Daily Mail?
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In July, Harry and seven other high-profile figures: Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, and Jude Law’s ex-wife, Sadie Frost faced a defeat in their privacy case against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Daily Mail.
Prince Harry has suffered another setback in his fight against tabloids. The Duke and seven other high-profile figures have been ordered to pay an initial £9.5 million to the Daily Mail’s publisher in legal fees after losing a privacy invasion lawsuit.
In July, Harry and seven other high-profile figures- Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, and Jude Law’s ex-wife, Sadie Frost faced a defeat in their privacy case against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Daily Mail.
Prince Harry and others will pay £9.5m to Daily Mail
On Friday, the court handed down a huge legal bill to the public figures. A month earlier, the judge of the London High Court had announced his verdict, saying that they had failed to prove their pleaded allegations.
Today, Mr Justice Nicklin ordered the group of public figures to pay the initial bill by August 28. This is the first instalment they have to pay in the case they lost. However, the exact amount that the claimants have to pay has not been decided.
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"The Court ordered the claimants to make an interim payment of £9,544,355" by 4:00 pm (1500 GMT) on August 28," a published summary stated.
Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) reportedly spent £34m on the privacy case. The rest of the payments will be decided in future hearings. During the cost hearing, ANL defended itself saying they had spent a huge amount. On this, the court reacted, calling it "exceptionally high" and "unprecedented".
Nicklin said ANL's claim appeared "excessive and... giving rise to real concerns as to whether all of the costs now claimed by Associated were reasonably incurred".
On July 7, the judge delivered his decision in the long-awaited privacy case, in which, the high-profile figures alleged that the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday published stories about them using information obtained through unlawful practices between the 1990s and 2011. They also accused the Mail of bugging their cars and homes and accessing bank accounts and medical records. This is the claim that ANL strongly denied in the ANL in the 45-days trial, which was attended by the Duke and the other celebrities.
According to a ruling by London's High Court, a written judgment published said the "claimants failed to prove their pleaded allegations... the claims are therefore dismissed".
