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Prince Harry won the first stage of his legal battle against the UK’s Mail on Sunday.
The Duke of Sussex filed a claim against the newspaper’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), over parts of an article published in February that he claimed caused “serious damage to his reputation and substantial hurt, embarrassment and distress which is continuing.”
A High Court judge in London ruled Friday that the article in question about the 37-year-old was “defamatory.”
“It may be possible to ‘spin’ facts in a way that does not mislead, but the allegation being made in the article was very much that the object was to mislead the public,” said Judge Matthew Nicklin, as quoted by ITV. “That supplies the necessary element to make the meanings defamatory at common law.”
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The Duke of Sussex’s legal team argued that the report in question caused…
