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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Ambrose

News of the World publisher fails in bid to end phone-hacking claims

Last edition of News of the World
About 1,028 claims have been settled, plus an additional 358 applications which were made to a compensation scheme between 2011 and 2016. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty

The publisher of the News of the World has failed in its attempt to force a deadline on potential victims of the phone-hacking scandal to make claims against it.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN), which published the now defunct newspaper as well as the Sun, asked for litigation to be brought to an end 15 years after the scandal broke.

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