[ISN] Celebrities prepare legal cases against Met over phone-hacking

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:36:09 -0600 (CST)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/celebrities-prepare-legal-cases-against-met-over-phonehacking-2180280.html

By Robert Verkaik
Law Editor
The Independent
10 January 2011

Stars of screen, stage and sport are preparing court action against the 
Metropolitan Police in a co-ordinated campaign to force the disclosure 
of more evidence that they believe implicates News of the World 
executives in the phone-hacking scandal.

News International, the owner of the News of the World, could end up 
paying millions of pounds in compensation if the police files prove that 
the scale of the illegal operation went beyond the actions of "one rogue 
reporter".

This week the sports agent Sky Andrew will be handed evidence originally 
retrieved from police raids on the office and home of the private 
investigator Glenn Mulcaire in 2006. The breakthrough in Mr Andrew's 
case came after his lawyers went to court to force the Met to comply 
with repeated requests for disclosure of the information.

Solicitor Charlotte Harris, the head of media at law firm JMW, said she 
had 15 more clients, including a famous actress, who each had "live 
inquiries" with the Met which were likely to end up before the courts.

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