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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> England and Wales High Court (Chancery Division) Decisions >> Various Claimants v MGN Ltd (Re Mirror Newspapers Hacking Litigation 4th wave) [2022] EWHC 1610 (Ch) (04 February 2022) URL: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2022/1610.html Cite as: [2022] EWHC 1610 (Ch) |
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BUSINESS AND PROPERY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
BUSINESS LIST (CHANCERY DIVISION)
IN THE MATTER OF THE MIRROR NEWSPAPERS HACKING LITIGATION
4th Wave
Rolls Building 7 Rolls Buildings Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL |
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B e f o r e :
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VARIOUS CLAIMANTS |
Claimants |
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MGN LIMITED |
Defendant |
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Lower Ground, 18-22 Furnival Street, London, EC4A 1JS
Tel No: 020 7404 1400
Web: www.epiqglobal.com/en-gb/ Email: [email protected]
(Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)
WordWave International trading as DTI
MR RICHARD SPEARMAN QC and MR RICHARD MUNDEN (Instructed by RPC) appeared on behalf of the Defendant
Hearing date: 4th February 2022
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Crown Copyright ©
MR JUSTICE FANCOURT:
"Together with service of his/her claim form each claimant shall, save in the early disclosure cases where such information has already been provided, serve a letter 'early disclosure letter' upon the defendant, such letter to be copied to the lead solicitor setting out the following information ... B, the mobile telephone numbers of the claimant during the period from 1998 to 2010 inclusive 'the relevant period'; C, an outline of the nature of the remedies he/she seeks; and D, the mobile telephone numbers of not more than four persons associated with the claimant during the relevant period 'associates'.
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"The defendant shall disclose to each claimant by provision of copies ... as soon as reasonably practicable the following documents 'early disclosure': A, call data for the relevant period, howsoever stored, including call records, call traffic, telephone account or billing data or similar information, including records of calls made from the defendant's landline telephone system and/or from the mobile telephones of its employees or agents in relation to all the mobile telephone numbers provided to the defendant in the early disclosure letter with such material to be disclosed in electronic, Excel or CSV format."
"The claimant shall by the deadline for service of any reply provide the defendant with the mobile telephone numbers of any additional associates named in the particulars of claim for which call data disclosure is required."
The purpose of that order was so that when further associates or family members were identified in the particulars of claim the claimant could obtain disclosure of call data in relation to those other individuals' mobile telephone numbers.
"The current and future claimants have permission to rely upon the particulars of common facts and issues and must plead their claims by reference to the same. Claimants shall not be allowed to plead any additional or alternative material going to matters in the particulars of common facts and issues without the consent of the defendant or an order of the court."
That order was made at the time that permission was given for the generic particulars of claim. They are referred to as the particulars of common facts and issues.