In his trial against the tabloid press, which he accuses of carrying out phone hacking on an “industrial scale”, Prince Harry will have to stand firm against a lawyer with relentless composure. And has a terrible reputation.
Prince Harry was questioned for five hours on Tuesday, June 6 by the publisher’s lawyer. DailyMirror whom he accuses of gathering illegal information before British courts. Her name ? Andrew Green.
In the English press, there is no shortage of expressions describing the man who has been pleading in a London bar for 35 years: “beast of the courts”, “an opponent to be feared”, “a fearless cross-examiner”… It must be said that Me Green is formidable. It is ranked by the Legal 500 (a UK ranking of the best law firms, editor’s note) is one of the best in his profession, in various fields (commercial litigation, banking, finance, media, entertainment…) and has represented people such as pop group Mungo Jerry or Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.
In the video, Prince Harry arrives at a London court for his trial against the tabloid
“A man young enough to have an appetite.”
For now, facing Harry, it is the defendant’s attorney who is leading the dance, as procedure requires at this stage of this civil trial. Andrew Green begins by verbally presenting an “apology” from the MGN press group, which publishes the British tabloid, as well as its Sunday and People editions. “It should never have happened and it will never happen again,” the lawyer claims. The apology is limited to the facts acknowledged by the press group, which, on the other hand, denies the allegations of hacking phone messages.
On the one hand, a lawyer who knows his case inside out and is convinced that his client is only responsible for his deviations, but nothing more. On the other side, in a dark suit, is Prince Harry, who says he is still traumatized by the repeated press intrusions that have marked his life. For former opponents consulted The Independent , it’s a safe bet that Andrew Green is trying to pass off the heir to the British throne as an “unreliable historian” in this case. “He’s not going to do it, I don’t think in a particularly unpleasant way, but he’s going to show that because he’s a very high-level person, you really can’t trust what he says (…) [Andrew Green] old enough to have experience, but young enough to have appetite.”
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Andrew Green, Solicitor DailyMirror Leaving the High Court in London during his trial against Prince Harry. (June 7, 2023) HENRY NICHOLS / AFP
True to his reputation, Andrew Green follows through on his plans. On Tuesday, she immediately questions Prince Harry about the causal link between such an article and his grievances, whether he has read them, how he came to know about them, many of which date back to when he was is. child or teenager. “I don’t remember”, “it was 20 years ago”, “maybe, but I’m not sure”, answers the youngest son of King Charles III, who complains about the intrusions of newspapers, which he describes as relentless. “I’ve known the hostility of the press since the day I was born,” he says, returning to the state of paranoia these intrusions have plunged him into. “When friends become suspects, ‘your circle starts to shrink,'” Harry continues.
Turning to him, Andrew Green takes his accusations seriously, listens to them carefully. He suddenly asks Meghan Markle’s husband to explain about the phrase used in his written testimony, specifically to know if the “blood on the hands” that he says the journalists refer to the specific article. “Certain editors and journalists who are responsible for causing so much suffering, shock and, in some cases, personally speaking, death,” Harry replies, clearly referring to his mother Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997. In Paris, being chased by the paparazzi. “Blood on the hands” is aimed “against the press more broadly,” he added, detailing that he did not name journalists in this paragraph.
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Andrew Green’s specific questions, which led to the deletion of about 20 of the 33 controversial articles on Tuesday, offer a chance to revisit significant episodes in the life of the prince, who is now in exile in California with his wife and two children. From that fancy dress party where he showed up in a Nazi outfit, to his relationship with ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy and their holiday in Mozambique. In many cases, the lawyer emphasizes that this or that information was in the public domain before it appeared in the columns of the MGN group headlines, and prepares Harry the elements that he needs to defend his accusations. “Everyone has a lot of sympathy for the break-ins you’ve had in your life,” said attorney Andrew Green, “but that doesn’t mean it’s the result of illegal activity.” If Prince Harry doesn’t intend to keep quiet today, Andrew Green doesn’t intend to miss out.
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Source: Le Figaro
