{"id":1938924,"date":"2023-05-26T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-allows-hugh-grants-hacking-lawsuit-against-the-sun-to-proceed\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:43:10","slug":"judge-allows-hugh-grants-hacking-lawsuit-against-the-sun-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-allows-hugh-grants-hacking-lawsuit-against-the-sun-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant&#8217;s hacking lawsuit against the Sun can proceed, says judge."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-allows-hugh-grants-hacking-lawsuit-against-the-sun-to-proceed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actor Hugh Grant&#8217;s Lawsuit Against The Sun to Proceed<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A judge in the U.K. ruled Friday to allow actor Hugh Grant&#8217;s lawsuit against the newspaper The Sun to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Timothy Fancourt is putting the matter of unlawful information gathering to a trial. While Grant also tried to sue for his phone allegedly being hacked by the News Group Newspapers outlet, the judge threw out all allegations relating to a hack. Grant previously settled with the media group, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and donated cash from the settlement, as well as an additional payment, to media reform group Hacked Off, which campaigns for stricter oversight of Britain&#8217;s scandal-ridden press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, the trial will center on accusations of phone tapping, car bugging, and breaking and entering. Lawyers representing Grant will have to make a case that information gathered led to articles that were written out of the &#8220;misuse of private information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf true \u2014 which will be a matter for the trial due to take place in January 2024 \u2014 these allegations would establish very serious, deliberate wrongdoing at NGN, conducted on an institutional basis on a huge scale,\u201d Fancourt wrote in his ruling. \u201cOf particular relevance &#8230; they would also establish a concerted effort to conceal the wrongdoing by hiding and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-allows-hugh-grants-hacking-lawsuit-against-the-sun-to-proceed\/\" title=\"Hugh Grant's hacking lawsuit against the Sun can proceed, says judge.\">destroying relevant documentary evidence<\/a>, repeated public denials, lies to regulators and authorities, and unwarranted threats to those who dared to make allegations or notify intended claims against The Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Grant hired private investigator Gavin Burrows in 2021, who ultimately made the discoveries that led to the lawsuit. Burrows determined that a 2011 break-in to Grant&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-man-free-on-bond-accused-of-murdering-parents-at-chicago-senior-living-center\/\" title=\"Report: Man Free on Bond Accused of Murdering Parents at Chicago Senior Living Center\">fourth-floor apartment<\/a> was allegedly committed by someone with the paper. Nothing was missing as a result of the intrusion, but now Grant is claiming private information was gleaned as a result.<\/p>\n<h3>Similar Lawsuits<\/h3>\n<p>Murdoch&#8217;s U.K.-based media company is also facing a similar lawsuit from Prince Harry. It has previously won a defamation lawsuit against actor Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n<h3>NGN Denies Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNGN strongly denies the various historical allegations of unlawful information-gathering contained in what remains of Mr. Grant\u2019s claim,\u201d a Friday statement from the conglomerate read.<\/p>\n<h3>Why SNAP Benefit Payments Could Be Among First Casualties of Debt Ceiling Crisis<\/h3>\n<p><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/food-stamps-casualties-debt-ceiling-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>out that part of the case due to lack of evidence. Hugh Grant&#8217;s lawsuit against the Sun newspaper has been allowed to proceed by a UK judge. The case will focus on unlawful information gathering and will go to trial. However, the actor&#8217;s claim that his phone was hacked by News Group Newspapers was dismissed due to insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1938925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[5876,11208,11198,5387,4585,20514,15150],"class_list":["post-1938924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-grants","tag-hacking","tag-hugh","tag-judge","tag-lawsuit","tag-proceed","tag-sun"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}