Prince Harry won his phone hacking lawsuit Friday against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 1,40,000 Pounds (USD 1,80,000) in the first of his several lawsuits against British tabloids to go to trial.
Justice Timothy Fancourt in the High Court found phone hacking was 'widespread and habitual' at Mirror Group Newspapers over many years and private investigators 'were an integral part of the system' to gather information unlawfully.
Prince Harry won his phone hacking lawsuit Friday against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 1,40,000 Pounds (USD 1,80,000) in the first of his several lawsuits against British tabloids to go to trial.
Justice Timothy Fancourt in the High Court found phone hacking was 바카라widespread and habitual바카라 at Mirror Group Newspapers over many years and private investigators 바카라were an integral part of the system바카라 to gather information unlawfully. He said executives at the papers were aware of the practice and covered it up.
Fancourt said he awarded the Duke of Sussex damages for 15 of the 33 newspaper articles in question at trial that were the result of unlawful information gathering and resulted in the misuse of the Harry's private information.
The judge also added damages for the distress the duke suffered and a further sum for aggravated damages to 바카라reflect the particular hurt and sense of outrage바카라 over the fact that two directors at Trinity Mirror knew about the activity and didn't stop it.
바카라Instead of doing so, they turned a blind eye to what was going on and positively concealed it,바카라 Fancourt said. 바카라Had the illegal conduct been stopped, the misuse of the duke's private information would have ended much sooner.바카라
Harry, the estranged younger son of King Charles III, had sought 4,40,000 Pounds (USD 5,60,000) as part of a crusade against the British media that bucked his family's longstanding aversion to litigation and made him the first senior member of the royal family to testify in court in over a century.
His appearance in the witness box over two days in June created a spectacle as he lobbed allegations that Mirror Group Newspapers had employed journalists who eavesdropped on voice mails and hired private investigators to use deception and unlawful means to learn about him and other family members.
바카라I believe that phone hacking was at an industrial scale across at least three of the papers at the time,바카라 Harry asserted in the High Court. 바카라That is beyond any doubt.바카라
The judge said that Harry had a tendency in his testimony 바카라to assume that everything published was the product of voice mail interception,바카라 which was not the case. He said the Mirror Group was 바카라not responsible for all of the unlawful activity directed at the duke.바카라