NOTW MAKES SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES PAYMENTS TO HACKING VICTIMS

Jamie Theakston Gets Phone Hacking Damages
Sky News – 49 minutes ago

Jamie Theakston, Jeff Brazier and Colin Stagg are among the latest names to settle their damages actions over phone hacking.
The presenter, the boyfriend of the late Jade Goody and the man wrongly accused of murdering Rachel Nickell are among 22 claimants to have recently accepted offers of substantial damages from News Group Newspapers, the High Court has been told.
Others among the group are Lisa Brash, former girlfriend of Robbie Williams, golfer Colin Montgomerie's ex-wife Eimear Cook, and Major David Brooks, a relative by marriage of Mr Justice Vos, the judge presiding over the litigation.
The announcement came during the latest in a series of case management conferences ahead of a hearing next June, when compensation is to be assessed in any claims outstanding in this second wave of the litigation.
Hugh Tomlinson QC said it was likely that there would be a number of other settlements before the end of the year.
"It is also right to say that there will remain a substantial number of claims going forward."
In October, it was said that 167 claims were currently on the register.
The court is due to sit again on Monday to consider the publisher's attempt to strike out the claim brought by Mary-Ellen Field, former adviser to model Elle Macpherson, on the basis that no phone interception took place.

I am happy to say that I have never heard of a good few of these people, LL. One assumes they are 'celebs'?

bb1 wrote:I am happy to say that I have never heard of a good few of these people, LL. One assumes they are 'celebs'?

Not celebs, but caught up in what the NOTW was doing. I think people like Colin Montgomerie's ex wife, Jade Goody's boyfriend and most of the others were probably hacked because of who they were associated with. In the case of Colin Stagg, he was accused of murder and was targeted nonstop while the NOTW tried to pin the murder on him. LL

Yes, obviously I've heard of people like Mr Stagg, but I cannot imagine why anyone would be interested in what the late Jade Goodie's boyfriend had to say about anything, never mind hacking his phone to find out.

And I wish they wouldn't call it 'hacking'. They weren't 'hacked'; they just didn't bother to change the factory default security settings on their phones.

I've seen a lot of the McCann-haters claiming that the McCanns 'must' have been hacked, when there is no 'must' about it. I should think they had the sense to change their security codes to something less obvious than 1-2-3.4.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think they went after Jade's fella cos they couldn't get to her and they wanted the down and dirty before she popped her clogs. LL

Yes, that sounds about right, LL.

bb1 wrote:Yes, that sounds about right, LL.

Most of this lot are 'second stringers' - ie got at cos they night shed some light on the main person. LL