Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, is seeking an interim payment of £10 million from Prince Harry and other high-profile claimants after losing a privacy lawsuit in London. Multiple outlets report the company asks for immediate funding toward legal costs following the defeat of the claimants’ case before a judge of the High Court. The court ruling rejecting the claims is described as turning on whether the claimants proved that information published about them was obtained unlawfully, with the judge saying that suspicion alone is not enough.
Associated Newspapers’ legal request includes arguments that costs should be paid on an indemnity basis, which the company says would require the losing party to cover the other side’s charges without needing to show they were proportionate. While several reports refer to the demand in dollar terms, they describe the same underlying request for a large interim contribution to costs. The claimants named in coverage include Prince Harry and others such as Elton John, along with additional household names involved in the broader set of privacy actions.
