May 12, (THEWILL) – Prince Harry’s trial with Mirror Group Newspaper, publishers of Daily Mirror, has began in London High Court on Wednesday.
Prince Harry and some UK celebrities including pop star, Cheryl Cole and the estate of the late George Michael, had jointly sued the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, over alleged phone hacking.
However, MGN has apologised for illegal information gathering and vowed it won’t happen again in the trial that began on Wednesday.
MGN said in court documents released on Wednesday, that there were some evidence of the instruction of third parties to engage in other types of UIG (unlawful information gathering) in respect of each of the Claimants, which warrants compensation.
“MGN unreservedly apologises for all such instances of UIG, and assures the claimants that such conduct will never be repeated”, court documents said.
“This apology is not made with the tactical objective of reducing damages (MGN accepts that an apology at this stage will not have that effect), but is made because such conduct should never have occurred”, the court documents reads.
The lawsuit claims pertain to a period between 1996 and 2011, which encompasses the time when media personality, Piers Morgan, now a vocal critic of Prince Harry and his wife Megan, served as Daily Mirror’s editor.
