Prince Harry has lost his Court of Appeal challenge over security arrangements during visits to the UK. Judges rejected his claim that he was unfairly treated, ruling that the decision to offer tailored protection was reasonable. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I said in my judgement that these were powerful and moving arguments, and I said that it was plain that the Duke of Sussex felt badly treated by the system.
00:15But, I concluded, having studied the detail of the extensive documentation, I could not say that the Duke's sense of grievance translated into a legal argument for the challenge to Ravec's decision.
00:32The legal question, indeed the only question for the court, was whether Sir Richard had failed to follow Ravec's policy without a good reason.
00:46From the Duke of Sussex's point of view, I said that something may indeed have gone wrong, in that an unintended consequence of his decision to step back from royal duties and spend the majority of his time abroad has been that he's been provided with a more bespoke and generally lesser level of protection than what he was provided with in the UK before.
01:16But that did not of itself give rise to a legal complaint.
01:22So the conclusion, in my judgement, with which my colleagues, Lord Justices Bean and Edis agreed, was that the Duke of Sussex's appeal would be dismissed.