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Prince Harry group ordered to pay first £9.5m in Daily Mail costs
The High Court also set the costs to be paid on an indemnity basis, a tougher standard than the usual “proportionate” test, after the group lost its privacy claim.
A UK High Court judge has ordered Prince Harry and six co-claimants to pay an initial £9,544,355 toward Associated Newspapers Limited’s legal costs in a long-running privacy case involving the Daily Mail, with payment required by August 28.
According to Insurance Business, the ruling follows an 11-week trial that ended on July 7, when the claimants lost their privacy action after the judge found the claims lacked an adequate evidential foundation.
The court’s costs order went further than the July verdict, directing the group to pay ANL’s costs on an indemnity basis rather than the standard basis typically applied to losing parties.
Insurance Business said ANL’s total legal spend on the four-year case is now above £34 million, and the judge declined to cap the costs, raising the prospect that the outcome may press beyond what the claimants had insured against.