Two months ago the branch of the Murdoch empire that publishes the Sun paid substantial damages to Sienna Miller after she sued the newspaper for hacking her phone and other forms of illegal intrusion. Continue reading
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Category: Phone Hacking (Page 3 of 37)
When Sienna Miller appeared outside the high court last week – after her hacking claim against The Sun was settled – she bravely described the ordeal she had suffered and the damage caused by the newspaper’s discovery of her pregnancy in 2005. Continue reading
While the Murdoch organisation long ago abandoned the pretence that phone-hacking was not rife at the now-defunct News of the World, it has always denied that journalists at its surviving tabloid, the Sun, hacked people’s phones. A landmark case has now changed the picture. Continue reading
On 8 and 9 December 2021 the settlement of a 15 phone hacking claims against News Group Newspapers were announced. A series of statements in open court were read before Fancourt J, culminating in a high profile and hard hitting unilateral statement in open court by Sienna Miller. Continue reading
On 10 June 2021 a unilateral statement in open court was read in the case of Sir Simon Hughes v News Group Newspapers. This recorded that News Group had agreed to pay substantial damages to settle a claim for unlawful information gathering against The Sun. Continue reading
Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is suing the newspapers. And so is her husband, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. As a couple, they are united it seems in a distaste for the British tabloid media, elements of which they accuse of carrying on a vindictive and bullying campaign against them. Continue reading
A Case Management Conference in the Fourth Wave of the Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception Litigation (“MTVIL”) took place before Mr Justice Mann on 31 October and 1 November 2019. Continue reading
The website, Byline Investigates, has revealed that Prince Harry is suing the Sun and the Daily Mirror for phone hacking. The claims were issued in the Chancery Division on 27 September 2019. Continue reading
Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Metropolitan Police must act. Continue reading
During the course of a three-week trial in March 2015, it was revealed how MGN papers, and especially the Sunday Mirror, had hacked the phones of eight well-known people, wreaking havoc in their personal lives by causing them to believe that stories about them appearing in the papers had been fed to them by their nearest and dearest. The victims included Shane Ritchie, Paul Gascoigne, Alan Yentob and Sadie Frost. Continue reading
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