United Kingdom: : Gulati v. MGN Ltd: High Court awards damages in phone-hacking cases

• Autores: Lorna Woods
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 7, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The cases concerned claims based on infringements of privacy rights as a result of the unauthorised access by one person of another’s voicemail/answering machine (phone hacking). The defendant was the proprietor of three newspapers - the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and The People. The claimants were eight persons in the public eye, such as actors, sportsmen or people with an association with such people. The claimants argued that journalists listened to messages left on the claimants’ respective voicemail services and also listened to the voicemail messages left by the claimants on the phones of others. The journalists thereby became privy to private information about the personal affairs of the claimants and were able to write stories and publish photographs that the newspapers would not otherwise have been able to use