Earlier this month, a judge ruled against a group - which includes the Duke of Sussex and Sir Elton John - after they sued the Daily Mail's publisher.

The Duke of Sussex and other high-profile claimants who lost their High Court privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail face a potential legal bill of millions of pounds. The group - which includes Sir Elton John, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Elizabeth Hurley - sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over claims of unlawful information gathering. But earlier this month, all their claims were dismissed by Judge Mr Justice Nicklin following an 11-week trial. At the High Court on Wednesday, the parties in the case began a two-day hearing to decide who will pay what legal costs for the mammoth trial. In written submissions, lawyers for the Duke of Sussex and the other claimants described the costs incurred by the Daily Mail's publisher - almost £34.5m as of 9 July - as "eye watering". They claimed that ANL had exceeded its approved costs by over £18.6m, and added the group was insured to cover some of the publisher's costs. Nicholas Bacon KC for the claimants told the court the group took out insurance cover in the sum of £16.2m, and that ANL had "overspent what they'd told us they'd actually spent". But the "current level of cover would be insufficient to meet their total costs exposure, possibly to the tune of many millions of pounds.", the court was told.