The British judiciary ordered a trial against the tabloid publisher on Friday The sunsued by comedian Hugh Grant for gathering illegal information.
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The trial is scheduled to take place in January.
The 62-year-old British actor accuses the Sun, whose publisher NGN denies any illegal activity, of using private detectives.
Judge Timothy Fancourt ruled that the lawsuits filed by Hugh Grant should go to trial, except for a portion of them related to phone hacking. The judge felt that the actor should have started proceedings earlier in this regard.
A similar process was initiated by Prince Harry. A decision to proceed with a trial will be announced in the coming months.
In his conclusions, Hugh Grant accused the Sun of “illegal acts” including “facilitated burglary, breaking into private property to obtain information by setting up microphones, wiretapping of landline telephones” and “telephone hacking and use of private… investigators”. the whole thing”.
A spokesman for NGN said the phone hacking charges had been dismissed and said the group “strongly reject the allegations of illegal intelligence gathering contained in Mr Grant’s remains”.
Hugh Grant welcomed the judge’s decision, saying it was “necessary for the truth about the Sun’s activities to come out” and stressed that this case “goes much further than voicemail interception”.