Sienna Miller was set on Friday to accept 100,000 pounds (S$201,293) in damages from Britain's News of the World after the newspaper admitted hacking into her mobile phone messages. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
LONDON - ACTRESS Sienna Miller was set on Friday to accept 100,000 pounds (S$201,293) in damages from Britain's News of the World after the newspaper admitted hacking into her mobile phone messages.
Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, which publishes the popular tabloid, admitted this week at London's High Court unconditional liability for the wrongs alleged by the star and agreed to compensate her.
On Friday, her lawyer Hugh Tomlinson said that the actress would apply for 100,000 pounds of damages and that a proposed settlement would include a disclosure of the extent of the paper's wrongdoing.
The court is expected to formalise the agreement in the coming week. A spokesman for News International, News Group's parent company, said: 'We are pleased that we have managed to bring this case to a satisfactory conclusion.
'Several weeks ago we admitted liability in certain cases and offered a genuine and unreserved apology. We hope to resolve other cases swiftly.'
The paper printed an apology over the phone-hacking scandal last month and has set up a fund to pay compensation, reportedly worth around 20 million pounds, to pay victims. Miller is just one of a long list of British celebrities to accuse the country's biggest-selling Sunday paper of hacking into mobile phone voice-mail messages in the hunt for information to write stories. -- AFP
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