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Our reporters James Gregory, Jemma Crew, Dominic Casciani, Tom Symonds and Sean Coughlan have been updating us from the High Court.

And in our London newsroom it's been Malu Cursino, with the page edited by Owen Amos and me.

Have a lovely evening.

What happened today

Prince Harry finished two days of being cross-examined as part of his hacking case again Mirror Group Newspapers.

The prince alleges journalists gathered information about him illegally, including using phone hacking - that is, listening to his voicemails.

What happens next

There's still more than two weeks of this trial left - including witnesses and closing statements. But Harry is not expected to appear again.

The other claimants are Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse.

What the judge must decide

Mr Justice Fancourt will decide, on the balance of probabilities, who is telling the truth - the claimants or the newspaper group. We expect him to deliver his judgement later this year.

Harry has 33 shots - and only one must hit the back of the netpublished at 17:57 British Summer Time 7 June 2023

17:57 BST 7 June 2023

Dominic Casciani
Legal correspondent, reporting from court

While so much of Prince Harry's case comes down to circumstantial evidence (because he alleges direct proof was destroyed) there's a very simple way to look at his chances: he's got 33 of them.

That's the number of sample newspaper articles he's linking to unlawful intrusion into his life.

Think of them as 33 balls at the penalty spot. The Mirror has to save them all.

If just one makes the back of the net, the prince can declare he was a proven victim and he wins at least part of the case.

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It's been a very busy day at the High Court in central London. Let's take a look at what happened during Prince Harry's second day of cross-examination as part of his hacking case:

Prince Harry answered more questions from the Mirror Group's lawyer, and said he chose to bring the case to court to stop "hate" towards his wife Meghan.

He said he was suspicious after a newspaper published a story about his then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy being angry with him for visiting a lap dance club.

The publisher's lawyer repeatedly said some of the stories in the case had previously been covered by other news outlets and were public knowledge as a result. The Mirror denies unlawful methods were used.

After Harry's cross-examination, the Mirror's ex-royal editor Jane Kerr - whose byline was on 10 out of the 33 stories featured in the case - faced the prince's lawyer.

She said she couldn't remember the sources for four out of the 10 stories.

Crowds cheered and shouted to Prince Harry as he left the High Court a little while ago.

Take a look in this 21-second clip:

What must Harry prove to win?published at 17:33 British Summer Time 7 June 2023

17:33 BST 7 June 2023

Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

Prince Harry’s side must prove that the unlawful activities the Mirror Group Newspapers has already admitted were used to target him.

This is not a criminal court. The aim is not to prove the case "beyond all reasonable doubt", but on the "balance of probabilities".

In other words, better than 50/50.

Prince Harry has to convince the judge it’s more likely than not that what he claims is true.

Harry's strongest and weakest momentspublished at 17:16 British Summer Time 7 June 2023

17:16 BST 7 June 2023

Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

Perhaps the most potent question Prince Harry may have put into the judge’s head today was “how can they have known that about my life?”

The information about him in dozens of stories, he said, was so private it must have been obtained by illegitimate means.

Another point which might cut through: how likely is it that the most newsworthy celebrity of his generation had not been subjected to techniques we know were widely used?

Somewhat weaker were the times he said it was for journalists to explain how they got stories, not him. In this court, the claimant has to prove the case.

Perhaps the weakest moments were his difficulty in responding when it was shown that stories in the Mirror had already been widely reported in other newspapers.

Prince Harry has just left the High Court and is getting into his Range Rover.

It marks the end of his two days giving evidence in his hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers.

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So how did Prince Harry perform?published at 17:01 British Summer Time 7 June 2023

17:01 BST 7 June 2023

Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

Image source, Julia Quenzler

He didn’t crumble, and he didn’t lose his cool.

He didn’t try to argue complex facts with barristers likely to be better prepared than he was. Plenty of other witnesses make that mistake.

His strongest position we’ve heard many times before: that his life has been damaged by media intrusion.

Even his opponent, the lawyer representing the Mirror's publisher, Andrew Green, said he was sympathetic.

But there’s no jury in this trial and the judge’s task in deciding the winner is a technical, rather than emotional one.

We've just spotted the Mirror's ex-royal editor Jane Kerr leaving court.

She was giving evidence after Prince Harry, and told the court she assumed private investigators used by the Mirror were not breaking the law to get the information, but says she did not check.

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Her cross-examination hasn't finished and will continue tomorrow.

Among the pack of photographers waiting for Prince Harry to leave the court is one person who looks quite keen for an autograph.

She's holding up Prince Harry's book Spare just outside the court.

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If Prince Harry's exit is anything like yesterday's, there'll be no time for that - but good luck to her.

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Photographers have been milling around outside the High Court for hours, but now they're getting into position as Prince Harry prepares to leave court.

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Jemma Crew
Reporting from court

Today's court session has ended and Prince Harry has just left the courtroom.

Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

Image source, Julia Quenzler

Several things are clear from the evidence given by the Mirror's ex-royal editor Jane Kerr in the last hour.

She gave many instructions to private investigators.

The claimants have records suggesting at least 900 payments were made.

She used them to get personal details such as phone numbers and addresses of people the newspaper needed to contact.

Kerr assumed they were not breaking the law to get the information but did not check. She relied on the fact that colleagues had commissioned them.

This is what she's just said: "It didn’t occur to me that anything was unlawful so the main thing was to check the story was accurate."

Interestingly, the tabloids are often criticised for making stories up.

The evidence in this trial suggests that great lengths were gone, in the pursuit of accurate information.

The question is whether it was unlawfully obtained.

Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

The former royal editor at the Daily Mirror, Jane Kerr, is under more pressure in court from Prince Harry's lawyer David Sherborne.

In response to questions about private investigators working for her newspaper, she says: "I wouldn’t have expected them to do anything illegal."

Prince Harry's lawyer fires back: "Did you close your eyes and ears?"

"They were people who provided you with stories," she responds. She did not know how they obtained information, she says.

"You didn’t care," Prince Harry's lawyer says.

"I assumed they would do what I would do," Kerr says, accepting that she had a duty to work within the law.

This is an important sequence of questions.

The claimants, including Prince Harry, have to prove that Mirror Group Newspapers didn't just pay for others to use illegal methods, but knew that's what was happening.

They also have to show this was sanctioned by those at higher levels of the company.

In an earlier exchange, the Mirror Group's lawyer Andrew Green asked Prince Harry about the circumstances that led to him taking legal action against the newspaper publisher.

In response, he said he first thought about taking legal steps whilst on holiday in France in 2018, when he met David Sherborne, who is now his lawyer.

"It was a discussion to somehow find a way to find a different course of action to stop the hate coming towards me and my wife," he said.

We've finished hearing from Prince Harry, but there's still more than two weeks more to run - including witness and closing statements.

The judge, Mr Justice Fancourt, will then decide, on the balance of probabilities, who is telling the truth.

If wrongdoing is found, the judge will decide the appropriate action.

This is a civil case, so no one will go prison.

But if Prince Harry and the other claimants win, they could be awarded money - known as damages - which could be from £1 upwards.

Mr Justice Fancourt is expected to deliver his judgement later in the year.

Jemma Crew
Reporting from court

The Mirror's former royal editor Jane Kerr tells the court she is not sure whether it is lawful to get hold of someone’s private telephone bill.

“I’m sorry, I really don’t know if it’s unlawful or not,” she says.

She denies obtaining phone bills. “Absolutely not,” she says. “I have never obtained a phone bill, nor seen one.”

Dominic Casciani
Legal correspondent, reporting from court

Ten stories by the Mirror's former royal editor Jane Kerr allegedly include the fruits of unlawful information gathering.

In her written witness statements she says she does not recall her sources for four of them.

One of the stories in this trial is her 2002 report that the then teenage prince had "kissing disease" - glandular fever.

"Possibly this information came from a member of the princes' communication team... but I cannot recall," she writes.

Another story from 2005 suggests that Prince Harry's former girlfriend Chelsy Davy was going to dump him - information he alleges may have come from hacking.

"I cannot recall this story or the source," she writes in her first statement - but then adds in the second that freelance journalists were involved in finding out Davy's intentions.

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Prince Harry, and three other people, are taking a newspaper publisher to court, alleging information about them was illegally gathered to generate stories.

As part of this illegal gathering, they believe journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People exploited a security gap to access their voicemails and hear messages left by friends and family.

Mirror Group Newspapers has previously admitted phone hacking took place, but says it didn’t in these cases.

This is a test case - if Harry and the other claimants win, the judge will use it to set the level of damages (amount of money) the publisher could pay in other cases from other celebrities.