Celebrities take phone hack legal action
Nearly 30 high-profile figures who suspect that their phone messages were intercepted by News of the World journalists are taking legal action – with more litigants “coming along week by week”, a High Court judge in Britain heard today.
Celebrities claiming damages include politicians John Prescott and George Galloway, actor Jude Law, comedian Steve Coogan, ex-footballers Paul Gascoigne, Andy Gray and Lee Chapman and television presenter Ulrika Johnsson, a High Court hearing in London was told.
