Prince Harry, Elton John lose 97-claim privacy case against Daily Mail
What's new: A High Court judge threw out every claim, ruling the celebrities had not proved the stories were sourced unlawfully.
Prince Harry, Elton John and five other public figures lost their privacy case against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, after London’s High Court dismissed all 97 claims on July 7. The lawsuit alleged that articles published from the 1990s to 2011 relied on information obtained through unlawful methods. Judge Matthew Nicklin ruled that the claimants had to prove the material was sourced illegally and that suspicion alone was not enough. The decision hands Harry a major setback in his long-running campaign against Britain’s tabloid press, even after earlier wins against Mirror Group and a settlement with Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm.