An emphatic victory for the Mail: how a £50m privacy case unravelled in court
Claimants are left with a huge legal bill after failing to prove the newspaper had engaged in any unlawful activitySecret listening devices inside people’s cars and homes. The commissioning of investigators to listen in on live phone calls. Corrupt payments to police officers. Illicit acquisition of personal medical and financial documents.When the claims first appeared in 2022, they read more like the modus operandi of an organised crime gang than a newspaper publisher. Yet lawyers for a group
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Claimants are left with a huge legal bill after failing to prove the newspaper had engaged in any unlawful activity
Secret listening devices inside people’s cars and homes. The commissioning of investigators to listen in on live phone calls. Corrupt payments to police officers. Illicit acquisition of personal medical and financial documents.
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When the claims first appeared in 2022, they read more like the modus operandi of an organised crime gang than a newspaper publisher. Yet lawyers for a group of claimants taking the publisher of the Daily Mail to court alleged that they were just the “tip of the iceberg”.
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.