LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry can not develop his lawsuit in opposition to Rupert Murdoch’s U.Okay. publishing firm to incorporate extra claims that the media mogul personally “turned a blind eye” to an alleged coverup of cellphone hacking and different wrongdoing at his U.Okay. newspapers, London’s Excessive Court docket dominated Tuesday.
Choose Timothy Fancourt was crucial of the request by Harry and others who declare they had been victims of the hacks, likening it to looking for “ ‘trophy’ targets” within the long-running civil litigation. However the choose additionally cleared the best way for plaintiffs to air allegations that present and former executives beneath Murdoch carried out an effort to hide proof associated to the hacking, together with William Lewis, now the writer and CEO of The Washington Put up.
