London (Reuters) - film star British Jude Law will continue the news of the world allegations of phone hacking the year next in a case to set guidelines on damages, which could involve senior management in the tabloid.
The court seized of the case in phone hacking to the best-selling tabloid, part of the media empire of Rupert Murdoch, right selected and four other persons to act as lead case in a trial to start in January.
The judge said it was crucial to establish how widespread phone hacking was the newspaper and the degree of involvement of senior management, as this could affect the level of all damages.
Matter of the Act has been included because it deals with allegations of harassment, has given rise to many stories and its disclosures had pointed to the senior to the news of the world, said his lawyers.
News International, Publisher of the news of the world, said later in a statement: "now that we have seen disclosure we believe that it is totally false that the appointed Executive is involved in the interception of voice mail alleged of Jude Law.".
A clutch of celebrities, politicians and sports figures continue editor International News, a unit of News Corp., for violation of their privacy in listening on their voicemail find scandals to sell more newspapers.
Cases of lead will establish principles for other and eliminate the need for each of them to be heard separately.
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Judge Geoffrey Vos said that it was also important to understand if it was the work of individual journalists or a policy paper scale to sell more copies and increase profits.
"Those who are important questions on exactly what was going on.". "To define the damage that you know exactly what happened", your said at a hearing in a London Court case management.
Claimants say there was a "grand conspiracy" in the journal, which means that the illegal interception of voice mail was practical common and widely known about.
International News is in General, although he admitted some responsibility and offered compensation of some of the claimants. Actress Sienna Miller, ex girlfriend Act, accepted a payment of 100,000 pounds sterling ($162,700) last week.
The scandal comes at a time when News Corp continues a takeover planned $ 14 billion of BSkyB firm of pay television UK.
News International also owns the Times of London, while that BSkyB has popular 24-hour news channel Sky News and critics claimed the agreement would give the company too much influence on public opinion. News Corp has offered to spin off Sky News in an independent company if the agreement goes ahead.
Waves of the scandal at Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid spread to the Office of the Prime Minister David Cameron.
Andy Coulson, who resigned as editor of the journal in 2007 after a journalist was jailed for phone hacking, was later hired by Cameron: his spokesman but resigned this work earlier this year after the investigation was reopened.
The Court decided Friday on four other cases of lead in addition to the Act: those of Officer Chris Bryant sport soccer sky Andrew, designer Kelly Hoppen, the stepmother of Miller, parliamentary pundit Andy Gray and the opposition of the labour party.
(Reported by Kate Holton; writing by Georgina Prodhan)
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