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Prince Harry\u2019s lawyers have been scolded by a judge for trying to add a swathe of new allegations to their legal battle against the Daily Mail\u2019s publisher.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex<\/a> is one of seven claimants, also including Sir Elton John and Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) for alleged privacy breaches dating back up to 30 years.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Mr Justice Nicklin, the High Court<\/a> judge hearing the case, strongly criticised their \u201cunorthodox\u201d approach and suggested lawyers for the claimants had shown a \u201cfundamental misunderstanding\u201d of the scope of the litigation.<\/p>\n

He said allegations that ANL had commissioned \u201cburglaries to order\u201d and that Catherine, Princess of Wales<\/a>, had been targeted by Mail journalists must be removed from their claim.<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Nicklin said the claimants could not rely on evidence from phone-hacking cases brought against the Sun and Mirror, stating: \u201cThis was different litigation, concerning different allegations, raising different issues, against different defendants.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also criticised an attempt to prove widespread unlawful activity at the Mail newspapers<\/a>, saying it was an \u201cenormous exercise\u201d in \u201cthe territory of a public inquiry\u201d and was \u201cnot necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry\u2019s lawyers have been scolded by a judge for trying to add a swathe of new allegations to their legal battle against the Daily Mail\u2019s publisher. The Duke of Sussex is one of seven claimants, also including Sir Elton John and Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) for alleged privacy breaches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[391606,21738,360146,22730,353920,22769,365805,344742,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2082277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-court-cases","tag-news","tag-newspapers","tag-prince-harry","tag-privacy","tag-royal-family","tag-sir-elton-john","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prince-Harrys-lawyers-scolded-by-Daily-Mail-privacy-case-judge.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082279,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082277\/revisions\/2082279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}