Several celebrities have settled phone-hacking privacy claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of The Mirror and The People.
The settlement includes an undertaking by MGN not to intercept the claimants’ voicemail messages, to pay compensation, and make a statement in open court apologising to them for the misuse of their private information. The public apologies were made in the Commercial Court last week.
The celebrities included Doc Martin star Martin Clunes, comedians David Walliams and Caroline Quentin, actors Antony Cotton, Mark Womack and Samantha Womack, and businessman Sam Farmer.
Duncan Lamont, consultant at Charles Russell Speechlys, which represented Clunes, Quentin, Cotton, Womack and Farmer, said: ‘We are pleased that we have been able to assist our clients in resolving their disputes with MGN and that the publisher has made a public apology to our clients.’
