According to a summary of the ruling, the court rejected attempts to infer widespread unlawful conduct where there were realistic and legitimate explanations for how the information could have been obtained.
Britain's Prince Harry has suffered a major legal setback after a UK court dismissed his privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail, ruling that he and six other claimants failed to prove allegations of unlawful information gathering.
The Duke of Sussex, alongside singer Elton John, actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, and other claimants, had accused the media company of engaging in illegal practices, including phone hacking, voicemail interception, and obtaining private information through deception over a period spanning from the early 1990s to the 2010s.
However, Associated Newspapers rejected the accusations throughout the proceedings, describing them as baseless and insisting that the information published by its newspapers came from lawful sources such as friends, palace aides, publicists and other legitimate contacts.
Delivering judgment remotely, Judge Matthew Nicklin dismissed all the claims, ruling that none of the claimants had established the allegations they presented before the court, according to ABC News.
