And for everyone going after Harry saying it should have gone to full trial - if The Sun had been found guilty, but ordered to pay nominal damages, Harry would have had to brunt the cost of everything.
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Interestingly, this process happened in reverse over Elton John in the 1980s - the Sun's lawyers advised the paper to settle on the grounds that they were all but certain to lose his libel action against them, and that this would cost them considerably more than £1 million.
And more recently with Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, where Fox decided that nearly a *billion* dollars was less than they might well have to pay if the defamation claim had been heard in court.
(Defamation cases are notoriously hard to win in the US, but that one was unusually clear-cut.)
So it was a private investigator wot dun it, The Sun - and Rebekah Brooks - can claim a certain level of deniability whilst at the same time holding their hands up. Labour may tut-tut but essentially do nothing. And Murdoch's empire grinds on...
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(Defamation cases are notoriously hard to win in the US, but that one was unusually clear-cut.)
https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3lgdzbp52ua2q