Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Yentob in phone- hacking payouts from Mirror Mirror Group Newspapers has been ordered to pay phone- hacking damages totalling £1. Actress Sadie Frost was awarded £2. England footballer Paul Gascoigne £1. TV executive Alan Yentob £8.
Mr Justice Mann also awarded £1. Shane Richie, and £1. Shobna Gulati and Lucy Taggart at London's High Court after a three- week hearing. TV producer Robert Ashworth, who was married to actress Tracy Shaw, received £2.
Lauren Alcorn, who had a relationship with soccer star Rio Ferdinand, was awarded £7. The judge's ruling - described as "unparalleled" by lawyers - will provide a framework for resolving similar civil actions in the pipeline. Paul Gascoigne, leaving a previous hearing, was awarded £1. The judge said the victims had all suffered a "serious infringement of privacy" and the scale of hacking was "very substantial indeed". Frost said outside court: "It has been a very difficult time and a time to reflect. I am relieved this is at an end and justice has been done." • Phone hacking: timeline of the scandal• Former journalist says colleagues hacked phones Gascoigne was described by his lawyer as being "delighted and relieved" with the result. Daniel Taylor, of Taylor Hampton, solicitors who represented three of the eight victims, said: "Today's judgment represents a milestone in the development of privacy law in the UK and the awarding of six- figure damages is truly historic and unparalleled, on a scale much greater than has ever been awarded previously." Actresses Shobna Gulati (left) and Lucy Taggart (PA) The March hearing seeked to determine the extent of the wrongdoing at the group and what level of compensation was appropriate.
Paul Gascoigne, Sadie Frost and Shane Ritchie win big payouts from Mirror Group Newspapers as judge awards eight phone-hacking victims more than £1.2million damages. Read Celebrities awarded thousands in hacking payouts latest on ITV News. All the Thursday 21st May 2015 news. Amounts awarded by the judge to victims including Sadie Frost and Paul Gascoigne are excessive and disproportionate, claims Trinity Mirror Trinity Mirror is planning to appeal against the decision to award eight phone-hacking.
David Sherborne, counsel for the eight claimants, earlier described hacking as "rife" across all three of the group's national titles by mid- 1. He said it involved the systematic gathering of private information for profit, using illegal means, and it was in that context in which damages should be assessed by the judge, who faced an "unparalleled" task.
Trinity Mirror: We're sorry, we did hack phones• Gazza: Phone hacking drove me to brink of suicide He asked for damages which took into account distress, loss of personal autonomy and the affront to dignity, and also reflected any increased injury to feelings caused by the conduct of the litigation and the need for deterrence. Alan Yentob is one of the BBC's highest- profile executives (Martin Hope) But, MGN's counsel, Matthew Nicklin QC, said the claim that the victims had suffered "unparalleled" harm was wrong and there was no reason why compensation for distress caused by misuse of private information should go beyond that awarded in other types of litigation. Earlier in the year, Trinity Mirror published a "sincere and unreserved" apology for the voicemail interception, saying it "was unlawful and should never have happened". In a trading update, it said that the cost of resolving civil claims would be "higher than previously envisaged" and it was increasing the provision for dealing with them by £8 million to £1. The phone- hacking cases relate to Mirror Group Newspapers, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Yentob in phone-hacking payouts from Mirror High Court judge orders Mirror Group Newspapers to pay £1.2m in phone-hacking damages to eight people after three-week hearing. The publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror has questioned the size of the £1.2m payouts made to victims of tabloid phone hacking, comparing the amounts with the £350,000 offered to each of the parents of the children. News International is set to pay up to £15 million to prominent public figures after admitting liability and apologising 'unreservedly' over the News of the World phone hacking allegations. A number of high-profile figures have been awarded payouts totalling £1.2million from Mirror Group Newspapers over the phone-hacking scandal. Troubled former footballer Paul Gascoigne was awa. More than £1m in damages are awarded to celebrities, including Paul Gascoigne, Sadie Frost, Shane Ritchie and Alan Yentob over phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers.
A British lawmaker said Thursday that he and 17 others have been awarded payouts over phone hacking by the News of the World newspaper, in settlements totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. News International.