{"id":537484,"date":"2026-07-07T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537484\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:03:09","slug":"judgment-about-to-be-released-in-prince-harry-trial-against-daily-mail-publisher-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537484\/","title":{"rendered":"Judgment about to be released in Prince Harry trial against Daily Mail publisher – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"A high-stakes case for Harry and for publisher ANLpublished at 13:39 BST<\/p>\n

13:39 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Tom Symonds
News correspondent<\/p>\n

\"PrinceImage source, EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

In previous legal battles with the press, Prince Harry won 15 claims in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers<\/a> and separately received “substantial” damages and an apology<\/a> in a settlement with the publisher of the Sun.<\/p>\n

The case against ANL was potentially his last major court challenge to a newspaper publisher, but his most difficult. <\/p>\n

ANL has always maintained it wasn’t involved in unlawful information gathering.<\/p>\n

The publisher said it used what it calls “inquiry agents” until 2007 to get publicly listed addresses and phone numbers.<\/p>\n

This “all or nothing” defence, plus an aggressive public response to Prince Harry’s claims, mean this is a high-stakes case for both the prince and the publisher.<\/p>\n

If he loses badly, an already critical Daily Mail could well hit back at him in its coverage of this trial and other aspects of his life.<\/p>\n

But he has always showed a determination for these battles, borne partly of an ongoing concern for his privacy, and a feeling that the Royal Family was wrong to advise him when younger not to take legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-stakes case for Harry and for publisher ANLpublished at 13:39 BST 13:39 BST Tom SymondsNews correspondent Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-537484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}