{"id":130672,"date":"2024-05-21T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/prince-harry-fails-to-ensnare-rupert-murdoch-in-phone-hacking-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:15:30","slug":"prince-harry-fails-to-ensnare-rupert-murdoch-in-phone-hacking-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/prince-harry-fails-to-ensnare-rupert-murdoch-in-phone-hacking-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry Fails To Ensnare Rupert Murdoch In Phone Hacking Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/prince-harry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prince-harry\" data-tag=\"prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> won&#8217;t be able to increase his telephone hacking lawsuit towards News Group Newspapers to incorporate <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rupert-murdoch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rupert-murdoch\" data-tag=\"rupert-murdoch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/piers-morgan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_piers-morgan\" data-tag=\"piers-morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piers Morgan<\/a>, the UK\u2019s High Court has dominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMr Justice Fancourt dominated on Tuesday that particular person allegations towards Murdoch and Morgan weren&#8217;t \u201cmaterial\u201d to the case, which is on the right track to go to trial in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPrince Harry and 40 others are suing News Group Newspapers, which publishes<em> The Sun<\/em> newspaper and shuttered <em>News of the World<\/em>, over allegations of telephone hacking and illegal data gathering. The writer denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFancourt stated he was blocking the plaintiffs\u2019 need to incorporate \u201ctrophy targets\u201d within the authorized proceedings, including that this can&#8217;t be an \u201can end in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMurdoch owns News Group Newspapers, whereas Morgan \u2014 who has a bitter and ongoing feud with Prince Harry \u2014 was the editor of the <em>News of the World<\/em> for round two years from 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a press release, News Group Newspapers stated: \u201cThe court in its judgment today has thoroughly vindicated NGN\u2019s position and did not give permission to introduce large and significant portions of the amendments \u2026 NGN welcomes the judge\u2019s decisions and comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Duke of Sussex\u2019s attorneys have been granted permission in precept to call and make allegations towards \u201ccertain further journalists and private investigators.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Prince Harry won&#8217;t be able to increase his telephone hacking lawsuit towards News Group Newspapers to incorporate Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan, the UK\u2019s High Court has dominated. Mr Justice Fancourt dominated on Tuesday that particular person allegations towards Murdoch and Morgan weren&#8217;t \u201cmaterial\u201d to the case, which is on the right track to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4177,4176,4180,1709,1789,4179,2331,1253,4178],"class_list":{"0":"post-130672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-ensnare","9":"tag-fails","10":"tag-hacking","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-lawsuit","13":"tag-murdoch","14":"tag-phone","15":"tag-prince","16":"tag-rupert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}