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

Well I hardly think Gen Alpha keep up with royal gossip, but good try.

It is so freaking tedious!

This is really now for parliament to take on. NGN have mislead the Leveson enquiry and previous victims, as NGN denied the allegations of unlawful activities (which they have now admitted).

This is much wider than just Harry and it’s unfair to expect him to fix it for the government.

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I agree Parliament need to take this up now

Well that's not what he said. Nobody expected him to do it by himself but he boasted that he would, so he was all Billy Big Balls until push came to shove.

If there are wider repercussions, it will be in spite of Harry, not because of him!

There’s nothing new added- the Gov are not going to look into anything.

What is there to take on? There's really nothing new in that statement. Do you think Murdoch's lawyers are stupid?!

They lied to the Leveson Enquiry

Instead of parliament why doesn't the OP and her followers take it on they seem to think they are experts on the subject.

Sure. If you say so.

Why the snark?

Have you actually got anything constructive to contribute or are you just here to insult people?!!

You're no expert on it, that much I can tell!

The apology :

There is no admission of phone hacking, surveillance or misuse of private information at the Sun; just the News of the World, which closed more than a decade ago. Admissions of “unlawful activity” are confined to private investigators, with no executive heads rolling, no forensic examination of any cover-up, and no airing of new details of the “serious intrusion” that NGN admits to.

Theres nothing new. No one will be investigating anything.

Take what on? A minute ago you thought I was 12, now I’m taking on a leadership role?

Make your mind up.

@Atlasvue The Sun until now have said they have had zero involvement with phone hacking. They now admit involvement.

As someone who occasionally reads but doesn't post on Royal threads:

Thanks to those who have tried to clarify facts rather than speculation

Many thanks to @Serenster for reference back to the original Leveson report

It would be good of @JoyousGreyOrca to do Milly Dowler and her family the courtesy of spelling her name correctly

@bluegreygreen Apologies for the mis spelling.
Shame you missed my comments quoting from the Leveson report as well. Never mind.

They absolutely don’t. See above quote from the telegraph

Murdoch's British newspaper wing, News UK, offered a "full and unequivocal apology" to Harry for what it admitted were unlawful intrusions on his privacy from 1996 to 2011, for the strain it put on his family, and even for its actions toward his mother, the late Princess Diana.
It acknowledged "phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators instructed by them at the News of the World." It further admitted "incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun."
"After endless resistance, denials and legal battles ... to prevent the full picture from coming out, News UK is finally held to account for its illegal actions and its blatant disregard for the law," David Sherborne, the lead attorney for Prince Harry and former Member of Parliament Tom Watson, said outside the courthouse shortly after the settlement was announced.

Wednesday's statement is the first admission by Murdoch's corporate empire of wrongdoing by The Sun.

In addition to News UK's apology to Harry, the company offered an apology to former Member of Parliament Tom Watson, a senior Labour Party leader who is now a member of the House of Lords, for surveilling him from 2009 to 2011, when he was investigating the Murdoch tabloids for Parliament.

Uh huh.

No phone hacking from the Sun. That’s what you had stated. It doesn’t state that at all.

What it said for the Sun- was unlawful incidents by PIs. It does not link journalists, editors and owners of the Sun.

So what I said stands. There’s no new info. No one is investigating anything.

I am really quite perplexed by some comments here.

It's perfectly possible to be pleased that Harry and Tom got what is likely to be substantial payouts from NGN whilst also questioning a narrative that he "won".

He did not achieve to do what he has publicly stated he set out to do in respect of having his day in court and holding senior executives at NGN responsible for the scandal.

He has also further undermined his much depreciated credibility by going back on his word. He's proven yet again that his word is not to be trusted.

So yes he's (most likely I think, though we won't ever know) "up" financially even after legal fees it doesn't look like winning (in the longer term) to me, especially in light of the VF article, the potential implications for the Sussex income stream and the fact nothing material has changed in respect of NGN accountability and press practices that was not tackled as part of previous cases/Levinson.

It says phone hacking by private investigators hired by The Sun.
The Sun always claimed they were not involved in phone hacking. But they were through private investigators they hired.

@BreadInCaptivity Harry has proven his word is not to be trusted because he did not go bankrupt? Seriously?