After losing his legal battle with the Home Office about his personal security plans for UK trips, Prince Harry has now lost his appeal.
Additionally, the Duke of Sussex was told he would no longer receive the “same degree” of publicly funded protection when in the nation, so he filed a challenge and was forced to pay 90% of the legal fees associated with it.
After learning that he would not get the “same degree” of publicly financed protection while in the nation, Prince Harry filed a lawsuit against the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) in February 2020.
The Duke’s petition was dismissed by retired High Court judge Sir Peter Lane in February, who found that Ravec’s strategy was neither procedurally unjust nor illogical.
On Monday, April 15, Sir Peter rendered a decision in which he stated that Harry was to foot the majority of the Home Office’s legal fees, but added that the government agency had engaged in “breaches” throughout the legal dispute that were “sanctionable.”
The Judge said;
“They have resulted in the case being largely contested by reference to new grounds, which have not been subjected to the normal permission process.
“The breaches resulted from misapprehensions on the part of the defendant as to the duty of disclosure, which this decision has had to address at some length. It is therefore right that there should be a modest but still significant reduction in the award of costs to the defendant.”
Harry lives in the United States with wife Meghan and their two children after the couple announced they were stepping back as senior royals in January 2020. He returned briefly to the UK on February 6 following his father’s cancer diagnosis.
