News group faces phone hacking claims in UK
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October 24, 2012, Wednesday
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AROUND 17 million pounds (US$27.26 million) was wiped off the value of Trinity Mirror after a phone hacking scandal spread to the owner of the British tabloid Daily Mirror.
On Monday the lawyer who handled many of those phone-hacking cases filed legal claims against Trinity Mirror on behalf of four people, including the former England soccer manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.
The reputation of British journalism was rocked by the revelation of hacking by journalists into voice-mails of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World.
Trinity Mirror said in a statement it had yet to receive any claims, and it repeated assurances its journalists worked within the law.
"We have not yet received any claims nor have we been provided with any substantiation for those claims," Trinity Mirror said in a statement.
News International has settled dozens of civil cases, paying tens of millions of pounds, and its journalists are still facing criminal charges over the allegations its staff routinely hacked into voice-mail messages to generate salacious stories.
Billions of dollars were wiped off the value of Murdoch's News Corp at the height of the scandal last year and executives were forced to step down.
The legal action will also provide a stiff test to the group's new chief executive Simon Fox, who joined the publisher in September and to Piers Morgan, a former Daily Mirror editor who is now a CNN talk-show host in the United States.
The claims allege phone hacking took place at the Daily Mirror when Morgan was editor of News of the World.
On Monday the lawyer who handled many of those phone-hacking cases filed legal claims against Trinity Mirror on behalf of four people, including the former England soccer manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.
The reputation of British journalism was rocked by the revelation of hacking by journalists into voice-mails of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World.
Trinity Mirror said in a statement it had yet to receive any claims, and it repeated assurances its journalists worked within the law.
"We have not yet received any claims nor have we been provided with any substantiation for those claims," Trinity Mirror said in a statement.
News International has settled dozens of civil cases, paying tens of millions of pounds, and its journalists are still facing criminal charges over the allegations its staff routinely hacked into voice-mail messages to generate salacious stories.
Billions of dollars were wiped off the value of Murdoch's News Corp at the height of the scandal last year and executives were forced to step down.
The legal action will also provide a stiff test to the group's new chief executive Simon Fox, who joined the publisher in September and to Piers Morgan, a former Daily Mirror editor who is now a CNN talk-show host in the United States.
The claims allege phone hacking took place at the Daily Mirror when Morgan was editor of News of the World.
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