The High Court hearing into hacking allegations has been a curious throwback to an era before Leveson, says veteran newspaper editor Chris Blackhurst A s we await the judge’s verdict in the Daily Mail privacy case , it is clear that whichever side wins, it will be a pyrrhic victory. That’s because the amount of mud slung by the lawyers for the seven claimants ( Prince Harry , Sadie Frost, Elizabeth Hurley, Doreen Lawrence , Simon Hughes, Elton John and David Furnish) – and for Associated