and hundreds gather at the sydney opera house to remember the comedy superstar barry humphries. hello, welcome to verified live. prince harry has been awarded £140,000 damages in his phone hacking case against the publishers of the daily mirror. a high courtjudge ruled this morning that on 15 occasions, the duke of sussex was the victim of hacking or other unlawful methods of getting stories about him. in a statement, prince harry said it s a great day for the truth and called on the police to launch a criminal investigation into mirror group newspapers. our media correspondent david sillito reports. this has been a landmark case. prince harry said his life had been blighted by illegal press intrusion and, today, the judge mrjustice fancourt ruled that, yes, his phone had been repeatedly hacked by mirror group newspapers. outside court, a statement was read out on behalf of the duke. today s ruling is vindicating and affirming. i ve been told that slaying dragons will get
that s a wouldn t be worth investigating. fific that s a decision for the police and the police have carried out investigations into mirror group newspapers and this had led to a small number of convictions. interestingly, some of the journalist convicted for doing unlawful activities whilst working for these newspapers have come to this core and given evidence that the other side, for those people who are claiming against those newspapers, they have become effectively whistle blowers. that has triggered a bit of an industry in this whole area of law, privacy cases where privacy cases are used to attack newspapers for unlawful practices in the past and then tried to seek damages from those. now, philippa, i m going to say thank you very much forjoining us and let you get out of the cold. we will have someone else to talk to on a second. just yourfinal comment someone else to talk to on a second. just your final comment on the importance of today s ruling. i importance of tod
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for the entire royal family, but for harry and david harry and meghan in general in being targets of the paparazzi more so since the coronation? no. just to the point that you were talking about just there. i am told that the pictures were taken from security a long along with other evidence with the whole time line and the circumstances that they ve been talking about and they re very confident about what they ve got and what happened here. in terms of the threat, i mean, the paparazzi is just pictures and story. they are still a huge part of the royal story and they ve got their own story that they developed in the u.s., as well. people just want pictures and they lead this very private life. they do tell us when there was a big event like there was last night and the paparazzi do not get the permission to be in the places that we do and they get additional pictures and that s where it all bleeds through. the one security threat that has emerged since he left was in h