Prince Harry was treated unfairly when he was robbed of his British security detail, his lawyer said on Tuesday in London with the judges of the Court of Appeal.
Harry, who rarely appeared in court because of the hearing, lost his protection financed by the government in February 2020 after he had resigned from his role as a working member of the royal family and had moved to the USA
A judge of the High Court decided last year that the decision of a government committee, Harry “tailor-made” security for his visits to Great Britain-was not illegal, irrational or unjustified.
However, the lawyer Shaheed Fatima argued that a group that rated Sussex’s security needs did not follow their own process and carried out an assessment of risk management.
“The complainant does not accept that tailor -made means,” said Fatima. “In his submission, this means that he was recognized for another, unjustified and inferior treatment.”
Harry, the title of which the Duke of Sussex includes, wore a dark blue suit and a light blue tie when he was sitting behind his lawyer. His surprising appearance was an indication of the meaning of the case for him.
Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles, took the Royal Family Convention with the government and the boulevard newspaper in court, where he has a mixed recording.
But Harry rarely shows in court and only appears a few appearances in the past two years. This included the trial of one of his hacking cases against the British tabloids when he was the first high -ranking member of the royal family to enter the witness box for more than a century.
Claims that Harry and family are at risk
Harry had claimed that when he visited his home, he and his family were at risk of hostility and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on social media and from relentless dogs of news media.
He lost a related legal proceedings in which he requested permission to pay privately for a police detail in Great Britain, but a judge found this offer after a state lawyer argued that officials should not be used as “private bodyguards for the rich”.
He also dropped a defamation against the Daily Mail publisher for an article in which he tried to hide his efforts to continue to maintain state -financed security.
But in 2023 he won a significant victory against Daily Mirror’s publisher when a judge found that the phone hacking at the tabloid was “widespread and habitually”.
Prince Harry explains the victory after a London judge said he was the victim of telephone hacking by the British publisher -Mirror Groups newspapers.
He got a “monumental” victory in January when Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspapers for years achieved an unprecedented apology for penetrating his life and agreed to pay considerable damage in order to enclose his complaint in data protection invasion.
He pending a similar case against the publisher of the Daily Mail.
