Sienna Miller v NGN – Statement in Open Court

Thomson Heath & Associates is pleased to announce that Sienna Miller has successfully settled her privacy claim against Newsgroup Newspapers Limited in relation to unlawful information gathering by the Sun newspaper.

The Unilateral Statement in Open Court was read today in the High Court before Mr Justice Fancourt, the Managing Judge in the phone-hacking litigation – the statement is available here.

Sienna Miller was represented by Mark Thomson, Emily Jenkins, Isabella Ritchie and Yinka McKay Wood.

Press coverage of this has included:

• The BBC published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller settles phone hacking claim with News Group Newspapers’
• The Guardian published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller says Sun used ‘illegal means’ to find out pregnancy’
• The Independent published an article entitled ‘Sienna miller ‘fully vindicated’ after winning substantial damages from The Sun’
• The Metro published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller feels ‘fully vindicated’ after settling phone hacking claims for ‘substantial damages’’
• The Independent published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller to have statement read to High Court after settlement’
• The BBC published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller says Sun illegally sought medical records of pregnancy’
• The Independent published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller and Paul Gascoigne among stars to settle phone hacking claims’
• The Independent published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller says The Sun used ‘blatantly unlawful means’ to find out about pregnancy’
• Sky published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller settles claim for ‘substantial damages’ against publishers of The Sun’
• ITV published an article entitled ‘They shattered me’: Sienna Miller settles claim against The Sun publisher over ‘phone hacking”
• The Daily Mail published an article entitled ‘Sienna Miller says The Sun leaked news of her pregnancy as she settles phone-hacking claim against its publisher which also pays out to Paul Gascoigne and other celebrities’
• Inforrm Blog published an article entitled ‘News Group settle News of the World and Sun hacking claims, Statements in Open Court‘