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Prince Harry facing monster legal bill following High Court fail · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian I'm Christinamia with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Prince Harry could be millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: out of pocket after his privacy claim against The Daily
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  Speaker 1: Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers failed in the
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  Speaker 1: UK's High Court. Harry and a group of other celebrities
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  Speaker 1: sued the UK's Associated Newspapers group for allegedly hacking their
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  Speaker 1: phones and improperly accessing health information, as well as, in
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  Speaker 1: some cases allegedly bugging their homes. The case was dismissed
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  Speaker 1: in early July by High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin, who
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  Speaker 1: found the group failed to bring enough evidence to make
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  Speaker 1: their case. Now they're on the hook for a multi
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  Speaker 1: million dollar legal bill which won't be fully covered by insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Harry and Hurley, as well as Sir Elton John and
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  Speaker 1: his husband David Furnish, Baroness Dorian Lawrence, the actor Sadie Frost,
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  Speaker 1: and former UK MP Simon Hughes, were insured for over
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  Speaker 1: sixteen million pounds that's about thirty one million Australian dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That leaves them about thirty five million short of Associated
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  Speaker 1: Newspapers full sixty six million dollar bill and they're being
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  Speaker 1: asked to pay a big chunk of that within the
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  Speaker 1: next two weeks. The barrister representing Associated Newspapers said the
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  Speaker 1: rush to recover the company's legal fees had become urgent
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  Speaker 1: after Prince Harry and Baroness Lawrence released a statement calling
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  Speaker 1: Justice Nichlan's judgment quote a complete and obvious whitewash. Prince
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  Speaker 1: Harry spokesperson told The Times he quote stands by every
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  Speaker 1: word of his statement. A portrait of Jewish leader Alex
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  Speaker 1: Rivchin has won the People's Choice Award in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six Archibald Prize. Queensland. Artist Michael Zavros, who recently
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  Speaker 1: discovered he has Jewish heritage, said Rivchin showed real leadership
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  Speaker 1: following the massacre at Bondai Beach in December twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Zavros will receive a five thousand dollars prize, which was
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  Speaker 1: decided by attendees at the Archibald, Win and Sulman Prizes
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  Speaker 1: at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: The encrypted messaging platform Telegram could be slapped with a
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  Speaker 1: fine of up to fifty four million dollars by Australia's
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  Speaker 1: E Safety Commissioner Julie Inman. Grant alleged on Thursday Telegram
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  Speaker 1: breached online safety laws when it failed to remove pro
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  Speaker 1: terror material from its platform.
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  Speaker 2: This case concerns content linked to some of the most
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  Speaker 2: notorious acts of known extremists violence in recent history, as
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  Speaker 2: well as ISIS beheadings and executions and other horrific material
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  Speaker 2: used for propaganda and for radicalization. We alleged that this
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  Speaker 2: content remained publicly accessible on the service long after Telegram
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  Speaker 2: had been put on notice by user reports.
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  Speaker 1: A Telegram spokesperson said the company's anti terror efforts are
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  Speaker 1: quote well documented, and said they'll contest the allegations in court.
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