Associated Newspapers / DMGT Statement :

'Associated Newspapers has filed a trenchant defence of its journalism against claims of phone-hacking brought by Prince Harry, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Sir Simon Hughes and a number of showbusiness celebrities.

In papers submitted

While it may be embarrassing to the editors of national newspapers to have their names associated with unlawful activities in this way, as the case of former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan shows, even when a judge states in a formal judgment that named journalists have

Being named in the ‘particulars of claim’ does not make the listed journalists parties to the cases, which are exclusively between the claimants and Associated Newspapers. Evidence relating to particular journalists will be assessed by the judge in the context of the possible

As for Victoria Newton, she was showbiz editor of the Daily Mail in the early 2000s and the claim documents allege that she ‘regularly commissioned TDI/ELI, for example in relation to targets such as Elizabeth Hurley’.

Ben Taylor, who as editor of the Sunday Times is, like Gallagher, a very senior executive in the Murdoch organisation, is also said to have commissioned work from TDI/ELI.

Elsewhere Gallagher is said to have commissioned work from and approved payments to TDI/ELI, or Trace Direct International/Express Locate International. This company was known for blagging financial and medical information and utility records, as well as for carrying out mobile

He is named first in a passage describing the activities of private investigator Steve Whittamore and his company JJ Services. Whittamore’s specialities included acquiring unlisted phone numbers and bills, accessing criminal records and identifying the owners of vehicles on the

According to the court documents, when working as news editor of the Daily Mail he commissioned and approved payments to two private investigation companies known to have acted unlawfully, notably by blagging.

Though Tony Gallagher has little public profile, he must rank as one of the UK’s leading journalists. Before taking the editor’s chair at Rupert Murdoch’s Times in 2020 he was editor of the Sun and before that of the Daily Telegraph.

The claims against the Mail papers note that of the 10 private investigators named, most have already been found by judges to have engaged in unlawful information gathering for other newspapers. In most cases this meant blagging, which usually involves tricking organisations

Litigation in the civil courts relating to phone hacking and other unlawful news gathering techniques has been going on since around 2007, involving first the News of the World and subsequently the Sun, the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the People. All of those but the Sun

The seven claimants are: Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence, Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sir Simon Hughes and Sadie Frost.

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These are the first civil cases alleging breach of privacy and the use of unlawful techniques to have been brought against the Mail and the Mail on Sunday and the newspaper group, owned by Lord Rothermere, has sworn to fight it all the way.

Last December the judge hearing the claims, Mr Justice Nicklin, ruled in favour of the company on the point of confidentiality, but pointed out that the claimants could ask the government to waive the restrictions. Earlier this year, to the surprise of many, Rishi Sunak’s

Associated tried to prevent the journalists’ names being made public. Some were listed in ledgers supplied by Associated to the Leveson Inquiry of 2011-12 under conditions of confidentiality. The ledgers were subsequently acquired (legally) and partially published by an online

The claimants allege that Glenn Mulcaire, working with a journalist, Greg Miskiw, supplied hacked material to the Mail on Sunday. Both Mulcaire and Miskiw were later jailed for hacking – unlawfully intercepting mobile voicemail messages – at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.

The claim documents also charge Associated Newspapers with breaching claimants’ rights by deliberately concealing and denying the use of unlawful methods, and in this context they name in particular Paul Dacre, longtime editor of the Daily Mail, Peter Wright, former editor of

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