Phone hacking 'rife' at MGN papers, Phone hacking was "rife" at all three of Mirror Group Newspaper's (MGN) national titles by mid 1999 at the latest, the High Court has heard.
At a hearing to decide the amount of compensation to be awarded in e ight representative cases, counsel David Sherborne said that the date when the practice first started at the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the People was not known.
But, the evidence was that it was rife on the showbusiness desk at the Daily Mirror by mid 1999 and continued thereafter.James Hipwell, a former Daily Mirror journalist who is due to give evidence during the two-week hearing before Mr Justice Mann in London, characterised it as being "endemic" at the newspaper.,Read More
At a hearing to decide the amount of compensation to be awarded in e ight representative cases, counsel David Sherborne said that the date when the practice first started at the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the People was not known.
But, the evidence was that it was rife on the showbusiness desk at the Daily Mirror by mid 1999 and continued thereafter.James Hipwell, a former Daily Mirror journalist who is due to give evidence during the two-week hearing before Mr Justice Mann in London, characterised it as being "endemic" at the newspaper.,Read More
