{"id":623739,"date":"2025-12-10T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623739\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:21:16","slug":"royal-family-live-major-update-in-prince-harry-court-case-as-hes-given-38m-warning-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623739\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Major update in Prince Harry court case as he&#8217;s given \u00a338m warning | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry has been warned about the costly &#8220;consequences&#8221; of his \u00a338 million privacy case against the Daily Mail amid spiralling legal fees. The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duke of Sussex<\/a> is one of seven high-profile figures suing the publishers of the Mail and Mail on Sunday over alleged unlawful information gathering dating back decades, something the Associated Newspaper group denies.<\/p>\n<p>The case, which has been ongoing since 2022, is expected to go to full trial in January, but the prince and his fellow claimants have been issued a warning over the substantial costs they would be liable to pay in the event of a defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, alongside Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/elton-john\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elton John<\/a>, the actress Sadie Frost and others, are collectively insured for \u00a314.1 million to meet the &#8220;totality&#8221; of Associated Newspapers&#8217; costs, but some of them also obtained individual policies worth \u00a32.35 million, complicating the financial picture if they don&#8217;t all prove to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>Judges David Cook and Mr Justice Nicklin said the estimated \u00a338.8 million costs of the case were &#8220;clearly outside the range of the reasonable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They added: &#8220;It is imperative that the parties and in particular the individual claimants have the clearest possible understanding as to the consequences of the way in which this litigation is being conducted&#8230;Substantial costs have already been incurred and the parties will soon be incurring more substantial costs in preparation for the trial next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW BELOW FOR LIVE UPDATES&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry has been warned about the costly &#8220;consequences&#8221; of his \u00a338 million privacy case against the Daily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[447,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-623739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-prince-harry","9":"tag-royal","10":"tag-royal-families","11":"tag-royal-family","12":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}