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March 5, 2015updated 21 May 2015 1:41pm

Mirror titles spent £2.25m paying private investigators from 2000 to 2007, High Court hacking trial told

By PA Mediapoint

An individual's right to control his or her private information was "cruelly and irretrievably" taken away by Mirror Group Newspapers, the High Court phone-hacking trial has heard.

At a hearing to decide the amount of compensation to be awarded in eight representative cases, counsel David Sherborne said that by hacking a voicemail, it violated the rights of "human autonomy, dignity and psychological integrity" on a "deliberate, systematic and sustained basis", with no conceivable public interest, but purely for commercial profit.

"Once private information has been published, the genie is out of the bottle. Never again can it be truly private," he told the court.

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