LONDON - Phone hacking legal claims in the U.K. have for the first time moved beyond Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., with one claim targeting a tabloid during the time it was led by CNN host Piers Morgan.
The stock of British newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror took a hit Tuesday following news that four civil damages claims are being brought against a unit of the company related to alleged phone hacking. As of 10:30am London time, the stock of the company behind the Daily Mirror and other publications, was down more than 10 percent.
According to the Guardian, the civil lawsuits, the first civil hacking claims not filed against News Corp.'s News International unit here, are being brought by Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, Abbie Gibson, the former nanny for David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's children, former England national soccer team manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and former soccer player Garry Flitcroft.
Eriksson's claim focuses on the Daily Mirror tabloid during the time when Morgan was its editor. The paper's editor from 1995 until 2004, Morgan provided evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in December. In his apperance, he repeatedly denied knowledge of any illegal newsgathering techniques.
The three other claims focused on the Sunday Mirror and sister publication The People.
The report said full details of the claims will be filed after an initial court submission late Monday. A spokesman for the Trinity Mirror unit told the Guardian: "We have no comment; we are unaware action has been taken at the high court."
Sly Bailey, the former CEO of the firm, told the Leveson Inquiry into media standards and ethics this year that there was "no evidence that our journalists have been involved in phone hacking."
Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com
Twitter: @georgszalai
Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/phone-hacking-daily-mirror-piers-morgan-civil-claims-409182
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