A judge has expressed his “surprise” over the Duke of Sussex’s absence from the High Court as his individual case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror over alleged unlawful information gathering got under way.
He was expected to arrive at court on Monday but his lawyers told the court he will not appear until Tuesday, when he is due to face cross-examination from MGN’s barrister.
Harry, 38, is suing Mirror Group Newspapers for damages, claiming journalists at its titles, which also include the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception and use of private investigators for unlawful activities.
Opening Harry’s individual case on Monday, Mr Sherborne said “the ends justified the means” for MGN and that details about Harry’s life were “a story too good not to publish”. He said the MGN newspapers had a “huge interest” in the royal family, the duke in particular, and “every aspect of his private life”.
On the first day of the trial, lawyers for MGN said the publisher “unreservedly apologises” to the duke for one instance of unlawful information gathering and that it accepts he was entitled to “appropriate compensation”. “MGN does not know what information this related to, although it clearly had some connection with his conduct at the nightclub.”
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