Hugh Tomlinson

News Corp. Settles More Phone-Hacking Claims, Lawyer Says

News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit has settled more than 89 percent of the 167 phone-hacking claims from a second wave of litigation by victims who said their voice mails were illegally intercepted.

News Corp. Facing More Hacking Claims From New Evidence

News Corp. may face further phone- hacking claims as hundreds more victims have been identified in a new police investigation into the illegal interception of voice-mail messages by the company’s U.K. publishing unit.

News Corp. Faces 100 Hacking Claims as It Offers Apologies

News Corp. faces as many as 100 more lawsuits over tabloid phone hacking, lawyers said at a London court hearing as the company formally apologized to Hugh Grant and Sarah Ferguson to resolve their claims.

News Corp. Searching Executives’ IPhones in Hacking Probe

News Corp. is examining iPhones used by four unidentified company executives for evidence sought by victims of phone hacking by the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, a company lawyer said in court today.

Soccer Player’s Lawyers Seek to Search Newspaper Worker E-Mails

A U.K. soccer player who reportedly had a 6-month affair with a reality-TV star sought a court order to search e-mails and text messages of all employees of Rupert Murdoch ’s Sun newspaper to see if they have broken the terms of a privacy injunction.

News Corp.’s ‘Likely’ Phone-Hacking Victim List Passes 1,000

News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid probably hacked into the mobile-phone voice mails of over a thousand people, a lawyer for victims told a London judge today, citing new police figures.

News Corp.’s ‘Likely’ Phone-Hacking Victim List Passes 1,000

News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid probably hacked into the mobile-phone voice mails of over a thousand people, a lawyer for victims told a London judge today, citing new police figures.

News Corp. Offered Sienna Miller 100,000 Pounds to Settle Case

Actress Sienna Miller was offered 100,000 pounds ($163,000) by News Corp. ’s U.K. unit to settle a lawsuit over allegations her mobile phone was hacked into by journalists at the News of the World newspaper.

News Corp. Hacking Victims Drop Civil Punitive Damages Claim

Victims of phone-hacking by News Corp.’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid dropped plans to seek additional damages designed to punish wrongdoers at a civil trial next year.

News Corp. Settled 22 More U.K. Tabloid Phone-Hacking Cases

News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit settled 22 more lawsuits over phone hacking by journalists at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid as the company seeks to avoid a group civil trial next year.

"It's in the best interests to remove the plea of exemplary damages on the basis that the claimants will be fully and properly compensated by awards of ordinary and aggravated damages."

- Hugh Tomlinson on Sep 27, 2012

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