Prince Harry’s lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher can go to trial, British judge says
LA TimesA British judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit by Prince Harry, Elton John and five other celebrities accusing a newspaper publisher of unlawful information-gathering should go to a full trial. The plaintiffs, who include John’s husband, David Furnish, and actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, accuse the publisher of the Daily Mail of paying private investigators to illegally bug homes and cars and to record phone conversations. Harry said the publisher targeted him and the people closest to him by unlawfully hacking voicemails, tapping landlines and obtaining itemized phone bills and the flight information of his then-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy. At hearings in March, the company’s lawyers argued that the claims — which date as far back as 1993 — were brought too late and that the plaintiffs were relying on confidential evidence the papers turned over to a 2012 public inquiry into tabloid wrongdoing.