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BREAKING: Court 30 at the High Court in London sits for what may be a very significant hearing in the matter of Various vs MGN Ltd. Judge Mr Justice Mann has just handed down judgment on whether Mirror Group's Lawyers and Board may be challenged on their knowledge of hacking

BREAKING: 1/2 Justice Mann's 101-paragraph judgment does NOT strike out Claimants' allegations that MGN's lawyers and board knew of and concealed years of criminal newsgathering at The People, Mirror, and Sunday Mirror #phonehacking #hackingscandal

BREAKING 2/2: Mirror Group Newspapers had argued that allegations against its lawyers would fail because of confidentiality contained in 'privilege' between legal advisers and clients. Justice Mann will now allow that right to be tested against the "iniquity exception"

EXPLAINED: The Iniquity exception means a lawyer and their client lose the cloak of confidentiality if they are shown to have been colluding in crime.

BREAKING: Richard Spearman QC for MGN is trying to appeal against Justice Mann's judgment on legal privilege... by saying it "trespasses" into areas of legal privilege. MGN wants to kick to kick claims of board knowledge into the long grass...

BREAKING: Mr Justice Mann denies MGN plea to appeal to the Court of Appeal on his judgment that arguments may be heard about its lawyers and board allegedly knowing about and concealing criminality. He says MGN has: "No real prospect of success."

BREAKING: MGN is seeking four months to investigate nine alleged incidents of board and legal department knowledge of criminality at MGN’s papers.

BREAKING: Mr Justice Mann is unimpressed by Richard Spearman QC for MGN’s pleas for four months. The Judge says: [he] over-exaggerates the amount of work involved…in relation to the nine specifics incidents (of board and lawyer knowledge).

BREAKING: Judge Mr Justice Mann tells Mirror Group Newspapers it instead has two months to address 9 allegations of board/ legal department knowledge of use of unlawful private eyes and phone hacking at its papers, which it then allegedly concealed from the PLC’s shareholders

BREAKING: Court 30 adjourns for five minutes