Prince Harry’s doomed phone hacking case against the Daily Mail was conducted so ‘outside the norm’ that he and his fellow claimants should be made to pay a substantial part of Associated’s legal costs, the High Court heard today.
The trial was pursued in a ‘cavalier’ and ‘highly unreasonable and inexcusable’ fashion, the Mail’s publisher argued.
Some aspects of the three-month trial earlier this year were ‘not only unfair’ to wrongly accused journalists but ‘in flagrant breach’ of the judge’s repeated warnings to the claimants’ lawyers about how the trial should be conducted, it said.
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