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
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The actor, Hugh Grant, has accepted substantial damages from Mirror Group newspapers after it admitted the unlawful interception of his voicemail messages and the obtaining of private information about him. Continue reading
The Mirror Newspapers phone hacking litigation continues. A number of high profile settlements were announced this week with Statements in Open Court in a number of cases including those brought by Steve Coogan, Sienna Miller and Jamie Theakston. Continue reading
The Supreme Court has refused Mirror Group permission to appeal against the phone hacking damages awards made by Mr Justice Mann in May 2015. This decision has far reaching implications for phone hacking cases and privacy law more generally. Continue reading
The Court of Appeal has listed the appeal in the privacy damages case of Gulati v MGN on 20 and 21 October 2015. No indication has yet been given as to the constitution of the court. Continue reading
On Monday 2 March 2015, the first phone hacking trial will finally begin, nearly 4 years after a “phone hacking managing judge” was first appointed . In Court 15 of the Rolls Building the current managing judge Mr Justice Mann will begin hearing the trial in the case of Various Claimants v MGN Ltd. Continue reading
On 28 October 2014. Mr Justice Mann, the judge managing the Mirror Group phone hacking litigation, handed down a judgment dealing with the disclosure being sought by the claimants from MGN (Various Claimants v MGN [2014] EWHC 3655 (Ch)). He ordered MGN to give “generic disclosure” in relation to phone hacking – that is documents going to the general practices of phone hacking at Mirror Group newspapers. Continue reading
Perhaps the sleaziest aspect of Trinity Mirror’s phone hacking confession is the emphasis placed on the idea that the offences took place ‘many years ago’. For while it is true that we have had to wait years for confirmation that reporters at the company’s papers broke the law in this way, that delay was in large measure the fault of the company’s management. Continue reading
Trinity Mirror has announced that its subsidiary MGN Limited has admitted liability to four individuals who had sued over allegations of interception of voicemails. MGN has apologised to those individuals and agreed to pay compensation. It has also confirmed that six other voicemail interception claims have already been settled. Continue reading
Mr Justice Mann, the managing judge in the Phone Hacking Litigation, has today dismissed applications for strike out and summary judgment in four phone hacking claims brought against Mirror Group Newspapers (Gulati and others v MGN [2013] EWHC 3392 (Ch)). Continue reading
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