Duke of Sussex & Others vs ANL: thread 4

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This is the fourth thread discussing the case Prince Harry (and 6 others) brought against the Daily Mail (Associated Newspapers Limited; ANL) for alleged unlawful information gathering (UIG).

The claimants are: Prince Harry (PH); Doreen Lawrence (DL); Liz Hurley (EH/LH); Elton John (EJ); David Furnish (DF); Simon Hughes (SH); Sadie Frost (SF).
They are represented by David Sherborne (DS).
The defendant (ANL) is represented by Anthony White (AMW).

The threads to date have been thorough discussions of the evidence (so far as we were able to obtain it), with posters giving links and explaining their views. We have mostly kept things civil by avoiding partisan discussions on specific Royal Family members, and trying not to be derailed from the topic of court proceedings.
The case has concluded and we are now awaiting the judgement from Judge Nicklin.

We have also included (when things slowed with the title case) other cases or discussions with a specific theme of free speech/press freedom, particularly when related to those with money or power preventing others from speaking.

One current ongoing case is that involving @GwendolineFairfax8 - some details towards the end of thread 3.
The case is in court this week and is likely to be reported on at the end of the week.

Links to previous threads

Thread 1

Thread 2

Thread 3

There was limited direct reporting from court after the celebrities gave evidence; what there we followed on this link
Sky news link to court case

Whoop whoop

So at last Harry has been metaphorically slapped around the back of the legs and told NO !

All cases dismissed!

Having followed here discussion here during the hearing I couldn't see that any of them had proved their claim. Some of the tactics of the claimants legal teams also sounded more than a bit off

Funnily enough Farage is claiming he needs his dodgy money for security - he should meet Harry for a blokey pint about their woes.

A lot of reputations lost too, not just the case.

Explains why some of his supporters have been a tad quiet today.

Im sure it will all start up again soon.

Looks like Elton John will be back on tour

Duke of Epic Fail.

The absolutely correct verdict. Now, who has to pay all the legal costs?

Nigel is now doing a Harry,

Now we know why Hugh Grant sloped off.

BBC stream switched to Harry's speech. So frustrating and Nigel is still wanging on

But apparently Farage is now saying that he at least has never mentioned his daughter? I mean, I didn't know he had a daughter, so he has a point.

At least Harry hadn't got much of one left to lose, Thedom, but this really is a wholesale "fail"

We're all human and I can't imagine Nicklin's too happy about the court time it's taken, given we now know the claimants had no evidence, but I wouldn't want to be in a room with Harry right now

Happy Birthday, July people!

Interesting juxtaposition of Farage and Harry

A shame for the defendants but if you can’t prove it, you can’t prove it.

I would have been very surprised to have seen any of them win based on the evidence I read in the press and the conversations we had on here. This is going to cost Harry dearly but I’m sure he will have some mealy mouthed clapback ready. It certainly won’t be his fault for sure 🙄

It would only be a shame if they were actually subject to illegal hacking, which they failed to present evidence of. Instead they gave lots of evidence of people around them leaking.

Taken from the DM:

The trial judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, accepted that every article complained about was lawfully sourced.

So if every article was lawfully sourced - David Sherborn looking possibly negligent right now?
As we have said on here from the beginning, this was never supposed to go to trial, ANlL was supposed to settle - they didn't.

I'm just wondering if he'll dare to declare his victimhood in front of an IG crowd. You know, men and women who's lives and bodies have been damaged by actual war. I'm sure he's itching to declare it an establishment stitch up. Can't wait to see the total radio silence from his supportive wife either.

Air punch✊
🍿 Ready for daily mail to unleash on the little twat. They all truly deserved this totally driven by greed and wanting to gag the press. Obviously EJ won't care as he can afford it, the others can't.
Bloody hell if I was ANL I would want to sue them for defamation. The burglary accusations were dropped as the judge said it will backfire on them making bold criminal claims they couldn't prove.

I wonder what the future holds for Sherborne, he really stuffed this up

So Harry and the other claimants are now on the hook for substantial legal costs?