- August 2020: Megan was criticized by Mr. Justice Warby in a judgment relating to the publication of a letter to Thomas Markle and the Mysterious Five who spoke to People. Too delightful not to relate, so here we go! Judge Warby rebuked both Megan, in effect, and the Daily Mill for being involved in tit-for-tat criticisms of one another. He described Megan's statements as hyperbolic assertions and said that there was evidence that both sides had been energetically briefing the media about the proceedings from the outset.
- December 2021: Master of the Rolls, Sir Jeffrey Voss, judge, and head of the Civil Justice System in England and Wales, didn't quite believe that Megan forgot she'd been involved in funding Freedom by having aides brief the authors. Sir Jeffrey britishly said this was, at best, an unfortunate lapse of memory on her part.
- March 2022: Shaheed Fatima QC was rebuked by Mr. Justice Swift for leaking a ruling relating to Harry's claim for protection before it was formally handed down. Harry's legal team gave it to a partner of his Law Firm who specializes in putting out reputational fires but who isn't a lawyer.
- June 2023: David Sherborne, AKA Oren sherbet because of his permitin, was rebuked by Mr. Justice funcourt because Harry wasn't around to give evidence on the first day, even though the judge had expressly requested that witnesses should be available early.
All of these efforts by the Sussexes were supposed to avoid cross-examination. However, this time it seems the judge made a decision and ordered Andrew Green KC to appear. Now Prince Harry is set to be the first Royal in 130 years to undergo cross-examination in a British court. This week, in a blockbuster legal battle with the Mirror publisher over alleged phone hacking, today Harry's lawyer said the Duke of Sussex would be unavailable to testify after opening statements because he'd taken a flight from Los Angeles on Sunday after the birthday of his two-year-old daughter.
"I'm a little surprised," Justice Timothy Fan Court said, noting he directed Harry to be in court for the first day of the case.
Mirror Group Newspapers lawyer Andrew Green said he was deeply troubled by Harry's absence on the trial's opening day. "This really angered Mr. Green," Green, who's fought various high-profile cases in his 35 years at the bar, will be seeking to tear Harry's case to shreds, a High Court Barrister told Sky News on Monday.
As a former adversary warned the Independent that the Duke may not even realize if he slips up during cross-examination, a leading Barrister in a previous adversary told the Independent, "Mr. Green will be all over the detail of the hacking case. He'll be extremely well-prepared, I expect rather better than Prince Harry reckons. He's going to be," the added, "Mr. Green will be relishing the rare prospect of cross-examining a royal."
The Barrister suggested, "Not him, Mr. Green is old enough to be experienced but young enough still to be hungry. He'll likely be looking to expose the Duke as an unreliable historian, that said, adding, he won't be doing it, I suspect, in a particularly unpleasant way, but he'll just be showing that for whatever reason, just because he's a high-profile person, you can't actually trust his
