Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Cilla Black is among the latest group of celebrities to settle phone hacking claims for “substantial” damages with the publisher of the Mirror titles, the high court has heard. A judge in London was told on Thursday that EastEnders’ star Jessie Wallace, singer and TV personality Peter Andre and actor and singer Darren Day have also settled actions against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People. Their barrister David Sherborne told Mr Justice Mann that the actions related to the “widespread and habitual practice of voicemail interception and the unlawful obtaining of personal information” which took place during the period of 2000 to 2006. Sherborne told the judge that a claim brought by Black’s son Robert Willis, who is the star’s manager, had also been settled. He read out statements on behalf of Black and Willis, Andre, Day and Wallace, and also a further five in the cases of other individuals whose settlements have previously been reported, including former England head coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, actor Christopher Eccleston and David and Victoria Beckham’s former nanny Abbie Gibson. Their claims for “misuse of private information” were brought against MGN Limited, a subsidiary company of Trinity […]
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