Prince Harry scored the biggest win yet in his legal war against British tabloids on Friday (Dec 15) when London's High Court ruled he had been a victim of phone-hacking and other unlawful acts by Mirror Group journalists with the knowledge of their editors.
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00:00 Prince Harry scored his biggest win yet in his legal war against the UK press on Friday,
00:07 when London courts ruled he'd been the victim of phone hacking and other unlawful activities
00:11 by journalists at Mirror Group newspapers.
00:14 The judge said that MGN editors, including the high-profile former Daily Mirror editor
00:19 Piers Morgan, knew about these activities.
00:22 Morgan, a constant critic of Harry and his wife Meghan, has consistently denied any involvement
00:27 in or knowledge of phone hacking.
00:30 King Charles' younger son was awarded over $180,000 and, in a statement read by his lawyer
00:36 David Sherborne, responded to the legal victory.
00:39 "My commitment to seeing this case through is based on my belief in our need and collective
00:46 right to a free and honest press, and one which is properly accountable when necessary.
00:53 I hope that the court's findings will serve as a warning to all media organisations who
00:59 have employed these practices and then similarly lied about them."
01:03 The Prince also called for authorities to take action against those identified as having
01:07 broken the law.
01:08 Harry was one of about 100 claimants, including actors and sports stars, who had sued MGN
01:14 over claims of phone hacking and unlawful information gathering between 1991 and 2011.
01:21 And Judge Timothy Fancourt gave an excoriating conclusion that there had been widespread
01:26 hacking and unlawful activities at MGN from 1996 until 2011.
01:32 He said it even carried on while a public inquiry into illicit practices at British
01:36 newspapers was taking place.
01:39 The MGN case is just one of four Harry is pursuing at the High Court.
01:43 He has won the right to take to trial a similar phone hacking case against Associated Newspapers,
01:48 the publisher of the Daily Mail, and Mail on Sunday.
01:52 Allegations of unlawful behaviour by News Corp's newsgroup newspapers, the publisher
01:56 of The Sun, will also go to trial.
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