A small number of victims of phone hacking engaged solicitors and made civil claims for invasion of privacy. (en.wikipedia.org)
The letter also embraces the proposals for independent regulation put forward by Lord Hunt that has now been criticised as inadequate by the Guardian and Independent due to its lack of full independence from newspaper industry.The YouGov poll was commissioned by the Media Standards Trust, which is independent of, but has close links with Hacked Off, the group that campaigns for victims of phone hacking. (theguardian.com)
By March 2010, News International had spent over # 2 million settling court cases with victims of phone hacking. (en.wikipedia.org)