Harry v. NGN

[Atlasvue]

Starting a thread for Tuesday.
This BBC article covers the basics. This is the last line ….
’Tuesday really is the beginning of the end. And someone is going to lose - and lose big.’

I have a feeling, that Harry won’t win but he just wants to use the public setting to air his grievances. A therapy session would have worked out much cheaper.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l00xkgwnyo

Harry was out to prove that the hacking was ordered from top down, he has not proven that at all. He wanted piers in the previous one and he wanted and even tried to get Murdoch into the court. He hasn't achieved that.

he not a dick for settling, he's a dick for posturing himself as the last hope. The almighty Dragon slayer

Complaining about intrusion into his private life while at the same time intruding on the private lives of members of his family, and the lives of others who are entirely private individuals.

Sherborne is speaking now, he is going further than the statement which is interesting

I wonder what Harry's statement will be.

I tend to think that could be a problem for Harry too.

The Heritage Society, and Project 25, and Trump look to be inextricably linked. It was the Heritage Society who was arguing to have Harrys visa records made public.

He got a big wodge of money and an apology. No top names held accountable. Nothig illegal occurred.

'Sorry for intrusion' and a wodge. Well done Harold.

... including incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun."

Stand corrected, unlawful 😂 Either way, I'm delighted for him and Lord Watson.

Maybe 'this is a big win for all us dragon slayers. We have proven we can take people to court to hold them to account but then just accept a payout instead'.

He calls today a "monumental victory" and that the settlement represents "vindication for hundreds of other claimants strong-armed into settling without getting to the truth".

Sounds like that was the statement they had prepared for winning the court case in 8 weeks time, doesnt really encompass the reality of deciding to settle.

Maybe there'll be a statement from the Office of the Dook and Dookess when the Dook finally drags his arse out of bed.

By private investigators, this isn't new. The whole point of going to court was to hold people in power accountable.

They haven't won, they have settled.

unlawful activities carried out by private investigators

No admission of anything illegal by the Sun.

Nothing that hasn't been known and admitted before.

👍

What have we learnt that we didn't know already?

According to Sherborne the NGN group have admitted that they knew and have lied and the Rebekah Brooks has committed perjury

unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for the Sun

What Sherborne says does implicate the top people so looks like he achieved what he wanted. The owner of the Sun apologising, NGN apologising for unlawful intrusion.

But not by The Sun. By freelance 'private investigators'. It's a very important distinction, legally speaking.

Are you saying the 'dragon slayer' had his sights set on a few unnamed 'investigators'?

Wonder if Sherbourne will be on the next Strictly or iacgmooh? He does like those cameras.

this settlement better not have any loopholes as Sherborne statement does not at all reflect NGN statements

Is he just making the apology Harry wanted?
I imagine NGN lawyers went over their statement.

🤭🤭🤭🤭

Nope. Read it again. It's really the most anodyne and generic of apologies for things that haven't happened in years and, following the Levison hearings, everyone assumed was happening anyway in one form or another, carried out by the lowly employees of the tabloids who have already been named shamed and in some cases imprisoned. The men and the woman they wanted to be accountable, the top brass, the editors, and held up as having been complicit in illegal activities have not been named, shamed or indeed held accountable, and continue in their very high profile, highly paid jobs. No dragons slayed today.

A casual viewer would think Harry had just won a major legal victory, not accepted a settlement with no admission of liability.

Sherborne looks like he has been doing both London and California working hours, (unlike Harry) he looks knackered😁