Parts of Harry challenge over UK security arrangements to be held in private
Three judges said that ‘confidential facts’ in the case would be heard in private.
Parts of the Duke of Sussex’s appeal against a High Court ruling related to the level of security he is given when he is in the UK will be held in private, the Court of Appeal has ordered.
Harry took legal action against the Home Office over the February 2020 decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) that he should receive a different degree of taxpayer-funded protection when in the country.
The High Court was told that the decision was made as a result of a change in the duke’s “status” after he stopped being a “full-time working member of the royal family”.
In a judgment in February last year, retired High Court judge Sir Peter Lane rejected the duke’s case and concluded Ravec’s approach was not irrational nor procedurally unfair.
