The High Court rules the actor can bring action over phone-tapping, but not for alleged voicemail hacking.
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The actor claims private investigators working for the Sun tapped his phone, bugged his house and car, and burgled his home to get stories about him.However, the court refused Mr Grant permission to sue NGN for allegedly hacking his phone voicemails, as the judge ruled he could have brought a case much earlier.
NGN said it was "pleased that, following our application, the High Court has ruled that Mr Grant is statute-barred from bringing a phone hacking claim against The Sun." He said the company had a "vast, long-lasting and deliberate policy strategy plan of false denials and other concealment in relation to The Sun, to prevent me, and others in a similar position, from bringing claims against them".
Publishers attempt to argue that cases should not go to trial because alleged victims of unlawful newsgathering delayed their legal action.
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