Prince Harry seems set for a courtroom battle with The Daily Mail newspaper’s writer within the UK.

The British royal’s damages declare over allegations of illegal data gathering can go forward to trial, a High Court choose dominated Friday.

As the BBC stories, Prince Harry is amongst a gaggle of high-profile people, together with Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Sadie Frost, Liz Hurley, and Sir Simon Hughes, who’ve introduced authorized motion towards Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL). The group has accused the writer of a number of “gross breaches of privacy” equivalent to hiring non-public investigators to put listening units inside automobiles, listening into telephone calls, and dishonestly acquiring medical and monetary data. 

Associated Newspapers has denied all of the allegations. At hearings in March, its legal professionals argued that the claims — which date way back to 1993 — had been introduced “far too late,” The Guardian reported. The newspaper added that David Sherborne, representing Prince Harry and others, stated Associated Newspapers’s try to have the claims dismissed was as “ambitious as it is unattractive” and that members of the group every had a “compelling case.”

In a ruling at present, Justice Nicklin stated Associated Newspapers had “not been able to deliver a knockout blow to the claims of any of these claimants.”

Today’s ruling possible means Prince Harry will give one other in-person court docket look following his displaying in court docket in June for a separate telephone hacking case towards Mirror Group Newspapers. That court docket look was the primary time a senior royal was cross-examined in court docket for the reason that nineteenth century.