A judge with London’s high court rejected a motion by Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers to block a lawsuit filed by Prince Harry alleging two British tabloids illegally hacked into his voicemails and used other illegal methods to get material for their stories, CBS News reports. Murdoch’s lawyers had argued that the lawsuit, originally filed in 2019, was too old to continue.
Although London High Court Justice Timothy Fancourt ruled that Harry’s suit about the phone hacking could have been brought sooner, he ruled that the suit could continue because the tabloids continued to use other illegal methods, such as hiring private investigators, to dig up dirt for publication. Murdoch-owned outlets including The Sun and the defunct News of the World published suspect stories using information gathered through means that violated the Royal’s privacy. It’s one of at least four lawsuits Harry is currently pursuing against British media outlets for intrusive, gossipy and untrue reporting.