The lawsuit ruled that Prince Harry could not retract his accusations against Rupert Murdoch.

The High Court in London has denied Prince Harry’s request to add additional claims to his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid publications. The Duke of Sussex is unable to bring further accusations against Murdoch or his wife Meghan as a result of the Tuesday’s verdict.

More than forty other people, including Prince Harry, are suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) for alleged illegal acts between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s by private investigators and journalists working for The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World. The trial in this case is scheduled for January and might go up to eight weeks.

Prince Harry attempted to add allegations in March that private detectives targeted Meghan in 2016 under The Sun’s direction. He also wanted to include accusations about his late mother, Princess Diana, from 1994. Judge Timothy Fancourt turned down these pleas, declining to extend the claim’s deadline and citing charges against 93-year-old Murdoch for allegedly providing fabricated evidence and participating in a cover-up.

Harry was allowed to add accusations of bugging his landline phones to his case, though. The claimants were also permitted by the judge to present charges against more reporters and private detectives, along with more information about the alleged fabrications by NGN.

Judge Fancourt pointed out that NGN won on the bigger matters, like removing Murdoch from the lawsuit, even though both sides won in part on the contentious revisions. The claimants were chastised by him for providing unduly detailed information, which he thought was more done to attract media attention than to bolster the evidence.

An NGN representative conveyed happiness with the decision, saying it “thoroughly vindicated NGN’s position.” The claimants, meantime, applauded the judge’s decision to permit changes on a number of important matters, including the accusations of willful destruction of evidence.

The ruling by the court prepares the public for a prominent trial that will examine the methods employed by Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate.