Matrix and Doughty Street Chambers are among a raft of law firms and barristers' sets to have acted on the high-profile phone-hacking dispute between Sienna Miller and the News of the World (NoW).

Matrix Chambers' Hugh Tomlinson QC, David Sherborne of 5RB and media partner Mark Thomson from Atkins Thomson have advised Miller on her case, with the latest development in the 'Hackgate' saga seeing the actress last week (13 May) awarded £100,000 in damages.

Anthony Hudson from Doughty Street Chambers, 11 South Square's Michael Silverleaf QC and Farrer & Co media partner Julian Pike represented the NoW.

Meanwhile, Alexandra Marzec from 5RB acted for private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who had been hired by the newspaper.

The judgment last Friday (13 May) saw Miller awarded a proposed settlement of £100,000 after NoW admitted liability for hacking her phone during a two-day hearing in the High Court under Mr Justice Vos. Further disclosures will be made privately about the extent of the newspaper's hacking activities, but the sum of damages will not be changed.

Last week's hearing was the latest development stemming from a string of complaints against the NoW for phone-hacking, which began in 2006 when then Royal editor Clive Goodman and investigator Mulcaire were briefly jailed for hacking into the mobile phones of royal aides.

Since 2006 a number of politicians and celebrities have either brought or considered claims against the newspaper, including Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes and actor and comedian Steve Coogan.

Last week's hearing comes as privacy law comes increasingly under the media glare, with newspapers seeking to fight back against the growing use of injunctions by celebrities and high-profile figures trying to protect their privacy.

Tomlinson is also acting for a married footballer involved in a dispute with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas relating to an injunction protecting his privacy over an alleged affair with Thomas. Thomas is seeking to have the injunction overturned.

Meanwhile, former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley last week failed in his attempts at the European Court of Human Rights to force the media to give individuals advance warning before publishing stories about their private lives.

The Court ruled that the media do not need to give prior notice of intended publication, holding that failing to do so does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

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