{"id":1984575,"date":"2023-07-27T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-harry-case-against-u-k-publisher-thrown-out-judge-slams-phone-hacking-claim\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T20:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T00:12:25","slug":"prince-harry-case-against-u-k-publisher-thrown-out-judge-slams-phone-hacking-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-harry-case-against-u-k-publisher-thrown-out-judge-slams-phone-hacking-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry&#8217;s case against a U.K. publisher dismissed, judge criticizes phone-hacking allegation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprince-harry-case-against-u-k-publisher-thrown-out-judge-slams-phone-hacking-claim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Prince Harry&#8217;s Phone-Hacking Case Against UK Publisher\u200c Thrown Out<\/h2>\n<p>Prince\u2064 Harry&#8217;s\u200b case against the U.K. publisher \u200dfor \u200dThe Sun was\u200b thrown out on Thursday \u200cby a \u2063judge who slammed the\u2062 royal&#8217;s phone-hacking\u2062 claim as implausible, with \u2062the outlet&#8217;s publisher calling it a \u2063&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-indefinitely-suspends-trump-tiktok-deal\/\" title=\"Biden Admin \u2018Indefinitely\u2019 Suspends Trump TikTok Deal\">significant victory<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justice\u2062 Timothy Fancourt&#8217;s \u2064ruling found that\u200c the \u2064Duke of Sussex&#8217;s claim had &#8220;not \u200dreached the necessary threshold\u200c of plausibility and cogency,&#8221; \u2062the Daily \u200bMail reported.<\/p>\n<p>The judge dismissed the member of the royal \u2064family&#8217;s claim that \u200bthere was \u2064a \u2062&#8221;secret\u2062 agreement&#8221; between the press and\u200c Buckingham Palace, calling the alleged \u2063arrangement implausible.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the case being \u2064thrown out, the judge did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-leaves-cnn-grieves-network-suffers-post-impeachment-ratings-dive-fox-news-back-on-top\/\" title=\"Trump Leaves, CNN Grieves: Network Suffers Post-Impeachment Ratings Dive, Fox News Back on Top\">leave open<\/a> the door \u2063for\u200d the\u2063 prince to sue the\u2064 publisher for other alleged illegal \u2063activities that helped it gain information about the \u200bduke \u2062and members\u200b of \u200cthe royal family, Page Six\u200c noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prince Harry&#8217;s\u2064 phone \u2062hacking case against\u200d UK publisher gets thrown out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LnjPUTG42C\">https:\/\/t.co\/LnjPUTG42C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJ9aWcywVE\">pic.twitter.com\/uJ9aWcywVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Page \u200bSix (@PageSix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PageSix\/status\/1684569010489430016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A trial is set to take place next \u200dJanuary to\u2062 deal with these matters, unless some kind of settlement is\u200c reached before\u200d that.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the royal filed a lawsuit\u200b against the now-defunct\u2064 News of the World, The Sun, and The Daily Mirror, claiming his phone and those \u2063of\u2062 his friends had \u200cbeen hacked,\u200c allowing the \u200bformer outlet access\u2063 to his voicemails between \u20621996 and\u200b 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. publisher \u200bNews Group Newspapers argued that Harry was\u200c too late because, by law, claimants have \u200dsix years to \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-harry-case-against-u-k-publisher-thrown-out-judge-slams-phone-hacking-claim\/\" title=\"Prince Harry's case against a U.K. publisher dismissed, judge criticizes phone-hacking allegation.\">start legal action<\/a> once they learn of alleged \u200billegal activity. The judge agreed \u2063with the publisher\u200b and said the duke was aware \u200bof the possible hacking by September 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO\u2063 GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time therefore expired,&#8221; Fancourt said.<\/p>\n<p>The prince \u2063tried to explain that his delay in filing the suit \u200dwas because there was \u2064an alleged &#8220;secret\u2062 agreement&#8221; between senior courtiers\u2064 at Buckingham\u200b Palace and \u2064newspaper executives.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u200d Fancourt agreed with The Sun&#8217;s KC Anthony Hudson, who told the court earlier that this was &#8220;Alice in Wonderland\u2063 stuff&#8221; and that \u200cthere was never any such &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-would-be-an-irreparable-disaster-if-joe-biden-were-designated-president-of-the-united-states-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-warns-believers-in-latest-interview\/\" title=\"\u201cIt Would Be an Irreparable Disaster if Joe Biden \u2013 Were Designated President of the United States\u201d \u2013 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano Warns Believers in Latest Interview with Steve Bannon\">secret agreement<\/a>.&#8221; Fancourt said there was no witness or documentary evidence to support what the Duke claimed.<\/p>\n<p>After \u2062the ruling, News\u2063 Group Newspapers (NGN) called the The\u200d High \u200cCourt&#8217;s decision &#8220;a significant victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Judge, Mr. Justice Fancourt,\u200d found his \u200cclaims in relation to the alleged &#8216;secret agreement&#8217;\u2063 were not plausible or credible,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;It \u200cis quite clear there was never any such agreement and it is only the \u200cDuke who has \u2062ever asserted there was.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry&#8217;s phone-hacking claim against The Sun was dismissed by a judge, who deemed it implausible. The publisher hailed the ruling as a &#8220;significant victory.&#8221; Justice Timothy Fancourt stated that the Duke of Sussex&#8217;s claim lacked plausibility and did not meet the required threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1984576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}