Ellise Shafer Prince Harry will be awarded £400,000 ($504,142) in costs in his phone hacking case against British tabloid The Mirror in addition to damages, according to his lawyer, bringing the suit to a close.
The BBC reported that Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, told a judge at London’s High Court on Friday that Mirror Group Newspapers has agreed to pay the prince the previous damages in addition to “all of the costs of his claim, including individual and common costs.” In December, Prince Harry was awarded £140,600 ($180,000) when a judge ruled that there had been “extensive” phone hacking between 2006 and 2011.
In response to the settlement, MGN said in a statement to the BBC: “We welcomed December’s judgment that gave the business the necessary clarity to move forward from events that took place many years ago.
Where historical wrongdoing took place, we apologize unreservedly, have taken full responsibility and paid compensation. We are pleased to have reached this agreement, which gives our business further clarity to move forward from events that took place many years ago and for which we have apologized.” Harry sued MGN alleging that more than 30 stories it had printed about him dating back to the early 2000s had been written as a result of “unlawful information gathering,” colloquially known as hacking.
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