Daily Mail seeks to delay court allegations of high-profile breaches of privacy

Doreen Lawrence with Paul Dacre, then editor of the Daily Mail and now editor-in-chief of its parent company. She is among a group whose lawyers accuse the Mail of ‘abhorrent criminal activity’. Photograph: David Crump/Daily Mail/Rex/Shutterstock

The Daily Mail has sought to delay the publication of potentially damaging court allegations about its journalism made by Prince Harry, Doreen Lawrence, Elton John and others.

Lawyers acting for the group of high-profile individuals claim they have “compelling and highly distressing evidence” they have been the “victims of abhorrent criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy” by Associated Newspapers over many years.