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Privacy law

The Duke of Sussex & Ors v MGN Limited

MGN engaged in widespread and habitual UIG and VMI against the claimants, with board-level knowledge and concealment. Most claims by Sanderson and Wightman are statute-barred as they could with reasonable diligence have discovered the facts more than 6 years before issue. Damages for UIG can include distress from subsequent publication. Substantial damages, including aggravated damages, are awarded to the Duke of Sussex and Michael Turner for proven UIG and VMI. Claims for acts before 2 October 2000 are not actionable as misuse of private information.

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  • Misuse of private information
  • Voicemail interception
  • Unlawful information gathering
  • Limitation of actions
  • Aggravated damages
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Civil procedure

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd

The application for a preliminary issue was dismissed because it was made too late, would result in the loss of the fixed trial date, would not save significant costs or time, and would risk delay and duplication of effort. There was no evidence that resolving the limitation issue would promote settlement, and the established case management regime should not be overturned at this late stage.

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  • Limitation of actions
  • Preliminary issues
  • Voicemail interception
  • Case management
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Civil procedure [2024] EWHC 902 (Ch)

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2024] EWHC 902 (Ch) (19 April 2024)

The High Court refused NGN’s late application for a preliminary limitation issue in the mobile telephone voicemail interception litigation, finding it would delay and complicate trial management.

  • Limitation of actions
  • Preliminary issues
  • Voicemail interception
  • Misuse of private information
  • Breach of confidence
  • Limitation-of-actions
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Privacy law [2023] EWHC 3217 (Ch)

The Duke of Sussex & Ors v MGN Ltd

The Duke of Sussex & Ors v MGN Ltd [2023] EWHC 3217 (Ch) (15 December 2023)

High Court judgment on claims against MGN for misuse of private information, phone hacking, and unlawful information gathering across Mirror titles.

  • Misuse of private information
  • Voicemail interception
  • Unlawful information gathering
  • Limitation
  • Damages
  • Misuse-of-private-information
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Media law [2021] EWHC 3083 (Ch)

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 3083 (Ch) (07 October 2021)

The court gave pre-trial directions in phone voicemail interception litigation, listing certain claims for November trial, sequencing generic issues first, and deferring the Duke of Sussex's claim.

  • Voicemail interception
  • Trial management
  • Generic and claimant-specific claims
  • Adr and mediation
  • Trial-management
  • Civil-procedure
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Privacy [2021] EWHC 2187 (Ch)

Jefferies & Anor v News Group Newspapers Ltd (Rev1)

Jefferies & Anor v News Group Newspapers Ltd (Rev1) [2021] EWHC 2187 (Ch) (27 July 2021)

The High Court ordered limited claimant-specific disclosure in MTVIL, requiring extraction and search of selected custodians’ emails and sampling of positive hits.

  • Disclosure
  • Unlawful information gathering
  • Voicemail interception
  • Institutionalised phone hacking
  • Destruction and concealment of evidence
  • E-disclosure
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Civil procedure [2021] EWHC 1737 (Ch)

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd

Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 1737 (Ch) (16 June 2021)

The High Court partly granted and partly refused disclosure in phone-hacking litigation, limiting speculative searches but ordering targeted SAP records and cash-payment searches.

  • Disclosure of documents
  • Unlawful information gathering
  • Voicemail interception
  • Use of private investigators
  • Evidence concealment
  • Civil-procedure
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Civil procedure [2021] EWHC 76 (Ch)

Pallett v MGN Ltd

Pallett v MGN Ltd [2021] EWHC 76 (Ch) (19 January 2021)

The High Court held that a defendant could accept a Part 36 offer after the relevant period and seek a costs ruling, but the claimant still kept her ordinary costs.

  • Costs orders
  • Part 36 offers
  • Voicemail interception
  • Early disclosure
  • Settlement negotiations
  • Part-36-offers
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Privacy law [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch)

Gulati & Ors v MGN Ltd (un-redacted)

Gulati & Ors v MGN Ltd (un-redacted) [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch) (21 May 2015)

High Court damages assessment in phone-hacking privacy claims against MGN. The court considered loss of privacy, distress, scale of intrusion, and aggravated damages.

  • Misuse of private information
  • Phone hacking
  • Aggravated damages
  • Quantum of damages
  • Media intrusion
  • Blagging
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Criminal law [2013] EWCA Crim 1026

Coulson & Anor v R

Coulson & Anor v R [2013] EWCA Crim 1026 (28 June 2013)

The Court of Appeal held that voicemail stored on a telecoms system can remain in the course of transmission after first access, so the interception appeal failed.

  • Unlawful interception of communications
  • Interpretation of regulation of investigatory powers act 2000 (ripa)
  • Voicemail interception
  • Scope of 'course of transmission'
  • Implementation of eu directives
  • Voicemail-interception
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