LONDON — Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) is facing 101 phone-hacking lawsuits from public figures including actors Kate Winslet, Sean Bean and Gillian Anderson and the estate of late Australian cricketer Shane Warne, London's High Court heard on Nov 20.

The publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People tabloids — which is owned by Reach — has been entangled in litigation for more than a decade over alleged phone hacking and other unlawful information gathering.

MGN had accepted that some unlawful information gathering took place at its newspapers in the early 2000s, before Prince Harry and three others went to trial in 2023.

Harry, the younger son of King Charles, was awarded £140,600 (S$238,000) after London's High Court ruled the prince had been targeted by MGN journalists — the biggest win yet in his "mission" to purge the British press.

He accepted substantial damages from MGN to settle the remainder of his lawsuit, but vowed his mission would continue and a trial of his separate case against Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm is due to begin in January.

Related

---