Phone hacking: News International faces nearly 50 new claims

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Source: Guardian

The number of new civil claims for damages over alleged News of the World phone hacking faced by Rupert Murdoch's News International has reached nearly 50, including Sir John Major's former daughter-in-law Emma Noble, the high court has heard.

Others seeking damages for alleged invasion of privacy from News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that published the now-closed Sunday tabloid, include former Conservative cabinet minister and chief whip Lord Blencathra and former Fire Brigades' Union general secretary Andy Gilchrist.

At a case management conference at the high court in London on Friday, Hugh Tomlinson, QC, representing victims of alleged phone hacking, told Mr Justice Vos that he had 44 new cases filed while two others had submitted their claims via another legal representative.

It is expected that up to 200 new claims will be filed over the coming months, Vos told the court in a previous hearing.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/20/phone-hacking-news-international-claims

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1. Who'd have thought that, once News Corpse learned how, that they wouldn't go nuts...

and hack every phone they could?

200? Tip of the iceberg.