"A legal battle brought by Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence and others against the Mail is costing a ‘manifestly excessive’ amount of money, two judges ruled yesterday.

They said the estimated £38.8 million case costs were ‘outside the range of reasonable’.

Senior Master Cook, who manages court case budgets, said he and trial judge Mr Justice Nicklin ‘had little difficulty concluding that such sums were manifestly excessive’.

They said in a ruling that the allegations were ‘really rather simple’ compared with other cases, such as medical negligence claims, often brought before the High Court.

Slashing both sides’ budgets, the judges said: ‘We have concluded that the sums sought by both sides are clearly outside the range of reasonable and proportionate costs."

" It emerged at a recent hearing that Baroness Lawrence launched her legal battle after Harry sent her a text message – which the court heard the Labour peer had since ‘lost and possibly deleted’.

The claimants, who also include Sir Elton John and actress Sadie Frost, say they brought their legal action after being told of alleged ‘confessions’ from a private investigator that he had hacked phones, tapped land-lines and bugged cars.

All of the allegations are firmly denied by Associated Newspapers which has described them as ‘lurid’ and ‘simply preposterous’ as well as untrue."

Interesting, suddenly the text message the Baroness received from Harry has gotten lost or deleted. Well Baroness, the phone carrier can retrieve "deleted or lost" texts. The judge in our family always says if someone still insists the text is "gone", "then it didn't happen did it?"

Harry is already on Justice Nicklin's bad side. It would do Harry and the claimants well if they and their legal teams straighten up and fly right."




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14323493/Prince-Harrys-Mail-excessive-judges-rule.html