LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper publisher has agreed to pay Prince Harry a “substantial” sum in costs and damages for invading his privacy with phone hacking and other illegal snooping, Harry’s lawyer said Friday.
Judge Timothy Fancourt found that Harry’s phone was hacked “to a modest extent.”The settlement avoids a new trial over 115 more tabloid articles that Harry says were the product of hacking or other intrusions.
He recently dropped a libel case against the publisher of the Mail after an unfavorable pretrial ruling.
He ordered the publisher to pay “common costs” of a general case seeking to show wrongdoing by the company.
Mirror Group Newspapers said it has paid more than 100 million pounds ($128 million) in other phone hacking lawsuits over the years, but denied wrongdoing in Harry’s case.
Persons:
—, Prince Harry, David Sherborne, Harry, Judge Timothy Fancourt, Princess Diana, Meghan, “, ” Harry, Duke of Sussex, King Charles III, Harry’s, Fancourt, ”, Nikki Sanderson, Fiona Wightman, Paul Whitehouse, Michael Turner, Rupert Murdoch’s, Murdoch
Organizations:
Newspapers, Mirror Group, Daily, The Sun, Daily Mail, Mail, Group
Locations:
London, California, United States