Up to four civil cases will be filed against Trinity Mirror at the High Court over allegations of phone hacking in coming weeks, according to a lawyer working on the scandal.

Mark Lewis, who is representing a number of claimants suing the News of the World, told the Sunday Times that there are “about three or four cases which will start within the next few weeks”.

Liberal Democrat MP Paul Marsden is reportedly one of the claimants. He believes his phone was hacked in 2003, when stories about his alleged affairs were reported in the Sunday Mirror.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live earlier this year: “Over those 18 months we have put together evidence which brings the only reasonable conclusion now that my phone was indeed hacked. That evidence comes from witnesses who can verify it. It also comes from the phone records.”

A spokesman for Trinity Mirror said: “We have had one letter from Paul Marsden’s lawyer. That was as long ago as last October. Despite numerous requests from our lawyers for him to substantiate his claims, Mr Marsden has failed to produce a single shred of evidence to back up his unfounded allegations.

“Our position is clear: all our journalists work within the criminal law and the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct.”

(Source: Press Gazette)

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