It is “fundamentally unfair to tarnish journalists” with “career and reputation-destroying” allegations of involvement in unlawful information gathering, a lawyer for the publisher of the Mirror has told the High Court.
Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) is being sued by the Duke of Sussex and other individuals over claims reporters at it titles – the Daily and Sunday Mirror and Sunday People – were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception, and the use of private investigators for unlawful activities.
