Rebekah Brooks is back in charge of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers – but the fall-out from the hacking scandal continues. Brooks’s news editor at the Sun, Chris Pharo, is going on trial later this month accused of making unlawful payments to a police officer. His co-accused is Jamie Pyatt, a former Sun news editor. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Category: Phone Hacking (Page 6 of 37)
Most people are aware of the phone hacking scandal and the high profile defendants at the ‘trial of the century’ last year. But neither Andy Coulson, nor Rebekah Brooks, nor phone hacking are anything like as important as the real scandal of the News of the World, which involves much more serious crimes that threaten the pillars of the criminal justice system in Britain. Continue reading
For the past four years the investigative website Press Gang has been dissecting the career of Piers Morgan. The result is a long series of articles entitled “A Pretty Despicable Man” (after a comment made by Morgan himself.) Continue reading
On 7 August 2015, Kitchin LJ granted MGN permission to appeal against the privacy damages decision of Mann J in the case of Gulati v MGN ([2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch)). The hearing of the appeal was expedited. Continue reading
In 2011, the British public and press were enraptured with the revelations of phone hacking at the News of the World. Rupert Murdoch referred to appearing at parliament as ‘the most humble day of my life’ The conglomorate looked down and out. Continue reading
It will be four years to the day tomorrow that the Guardian published the front page expose of the Hacking of Milly Dowler by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill which led to the setting up of the Leveson inquiry and kicked off this seemingly endless saga of the investigation of press intrusion. Continue reading
English privacy law is a slow-evolving story. Most of its principles have developed from case law since the Millennium, yet awards of damages by the courts in compensation for harm suffered as a consequence of privacy infringements (such as for distress and loss of dignity suffered by claimants) have typically been low. Continue reading
MGN yesterday sought permission to appeal against the very large awards of damages made by Mr Justice Mann in the eight test claims in the hacking litigation arising out of voicemail interception at Mirror Group Newspapers (Gulati v MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482(Ch)). Permission was refused by the Judge. MGN will now seek permission from the Court of Appeal. Continue reading
Former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson was today acquitted of perjury at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh after the trial judge, Lord Burns, ruled that there was no case to answer. Continue reading
The case of Gulati v MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch), to which the attention of this blog’s readers has already been drawn here, is a complex but important case. In particular, the fact that no publication to the world at large had occurred in the case of one claimant, and that the element of distress was considerably downplayed because the hacking had occurred unbeknownst to the claimants, forced Mann J to engage with foundational issues in the still-fledging law of privacy in England and Wales. This post will focus on the topic of damages (the sort of losses that are being compensated for) and do so from a mainly private law theory perspective. Continue reading
Recent Judgments
© 2026 Inforrm's Blog
Theme by Anders Norén — Up ↑