LONDON: Lawyers for Britain’s Prince Harry and other claimants sought on Wednesday to amend their London lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s British mass-circulation papers to include the magnate personally in allegations of a cover-up of wrongdoing.
Harry and more than 40 others are suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) over accusations of unlawful invasions of privacy by its tabloids, the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, from the mid-1990s until 2016.
The case is due to go to a trial, which could last eight weeks and is scheduled to begin in January.
In a three-day hearing starting on Wednesday, lawyers for the claimants asked Judge Timothy Fancourt for permission to change details of their generic case against NGN to include what they argue would be further evidence of a cover-up by senior executives at the newspaper group.
Among the amendments they are seeking to include are references to Murdoch, 93, himself in relation to senior figures’ knowledge and concealment of unlawful activities, and evidence relating to Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News UK, News Corp’s British newspaper arm.
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