The claimants each claimed that their mobile phones had been hacked by or on behalf of the defendant newspaper group. The claims had now in substance been admitted, and the court set out to assess the damages (and aggravated damages) to be paid.
Held: The defendants had taken great steps to deny any culpability and only admitted their offences and apologised at the latest opportunity and when it represented a tactical advantage. Substantial damages were awarded to several defendants acknowledging the real damage caused by the defendant’s newspapers.
Mann J
[2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch), [2015] WLR(D) 232
Bailii, WLRD
England and Wales
Citing:
See Also – Gulati and Others v MGN Ltd ChD 6-Nov-2013
The claimants alleged that the defendant newspaper group had directly or through agents hacked their mobile phones. They suggested that articles published by the defendants could only have come from such activities. The defendants now sought summary . .
Cited by:
Appeal from – Representative Claimants v MGN Ltd CA 17-Dec-2015
The claimants complained that the appellant newspaper had hacked into their mobile telephones over a period of time. The newspaper now appealed against the level of damages awarded (between andpound;72k and andpound;260k).
Held: The appeals . .
Cited – NT 1 and NT 2 v Google Llc QBD 13-Apr-2018
Right to be Forgotten is not absolute
The two claimants separately had criminal convictions from years before. They objected to the defendant indexing third party web pages which included personal data in the form of information about those convictions, which were now spent. The claims . .
Cited – Mezvinsky and Another v Associated Newspapers Ltd ChD 25-May-2018
Choice of Division and Business Lists
Claim that the publication of pictures of the young children of the celebrity claimants had been published by the defendant on-line without consent and without pixelation, in breach of their human rights, of data protection, and right to privacy. . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Media, Torts – Other, Damages
Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.547066