About a month ago, Prince Harry’s lawyers were in the British High Court as part of his Judicial Review hearings regarding security. As we know, Harry has sought a Judicial Review to ensure that he, his wife and his children will receive high-level royal protection if and when they visit the UK. The review is also about whether Harry can reimburse the police for this protection. The police and Home Office’s argument is extremely stupid, and it boils down to “Harry is arrogant because he thinks he needs security, and security follows rank not threat.” Which is idiotic. At a hearing in February, Harry’s lawyers exposed the secretive Ravec sub-bureaucracy which determines which people get police protection, and no one wants Ravec’s inner-workings further exposed. And yet the palace and the police keep leaking all of this horribly libelous sh-t about Harry too. All of which to say, Harry requested that parts of the Judicial Review be made private, and the judge granted that today.

Parts of Prince Harry’s court case against the Home Office over his police protection in the UK will be kept private, the High Court has ruled. Prince Harry is challenging the government’s decision to refuse police security during his visits from the US. The duke has said he currently “does not feel safe” when visiting and has offered to pay for police protection.

Government lawyers said his offer was “irrelevant” to how officials took decisions over Royal Family security.

Following preliminary hearings in the case last month, Mr Justice Swift ruled on Thursday that parts of court documents in the case should be kept confidential. Both the duke and the Home Office had made the application for some parts of the court documents to be kept private.

Thursday’s ruling only covers the redaction of documents and does not decide the duke’s claim against the Home Office or whether it can go ahead.

Prince Harry argues that his private protection team in the US does not have adequate jurisdiction abroad or access to UK intelligence information which is needed to keep his family safe. Robert Palmer QC, for the Home Office, previously told the court the duke’s offer of private funding was “irrelevant” and that “personal protective security by the police is not available on a privately financed basis”.

Speaking on Thursday, Mr Justice Swift said some of the information relied on in the case involved the security arrangements for Prince Harry and other public figures in the UK.

“For obvious reasons information on such matters usually remains confidential,” he said.

[From BBC]

Harry’s motive for wanting parts of this case made private is because – duh – there are significant security threats against him and this is all very sensitive information. People don’t go around, talking about their security personnel’s movements in open court. The reason why the police and Home Office want the case to stay private is that they’re trying to avoid their own exposure and liability. They’re going on record saying that Harry and Meghan don’t need security, how dare they even ask. The Home Office also doesn’t want the members of Ravec exposed in open court. That’s the big question though, who was it in Ravec who determined that the Sussexes should have their security permanently yanked?

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