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As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court, ... Even if every allegation is proven in court, I would still be liable for something approaching 10 million pounds (US$12.4 million) in costs. I’m afraid I am shying at that fence.”
Grant said on the social media platform X If true ... these allegations would establish very serious, deliberate wrongdoing at NGN, conducted on an institutional basis on a huge scale,
The Duke of Sussex is subject to the same issues that [actor] Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant have been subject to, which is that offers are made [that] make it impossible for them to go ahead,
News Group are claiming they are entirely innocent of the things I had accused the Sun of doing,
Grant posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday I would love to see all the allegations that they deny tested in court,
NGN is drawing a line under disputed matters, some of which date back more than 20 years ago. In some cases, it has made commercial sense for both parties to come to a settlement agreement before trial to bring a resolution to the matter,
I wanted to go to trial. I wanted to expose the criminality that runs through the heart of this corporation.”
I don't want to accept this money or settle ... The rules around civil litigation mean that if I proceed to trial, and the court awards me damages that are even a penny less than the settlement offer, I would have to pay the legal costs of both sides.
I've had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial…They are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.
The star of films including Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral later wrote on X, formerly Twitter In 2011, an unreserved apology was made by NGN to victims of voicemail interception by the News of the World.
In a statement, NGN spokesperson said I'm afraid I am shying at that fence
Murdoch's settlement money has a stink and I refuse to let this be hush money.
I don't want to accept this money or settle,
Rupert Murdoch's lawyers are very expensive,
wrote the actor, who said he would spend the money on lobby groups such as Hacked Off, which campaigns against press intrusion It is in both parties financial interests not to progress to a costly trial,
Hugh Grant would have been left in little doubt by his lawyers that the offer was pitched so that there was a real risk that he would not `beat' it at trial,
The Sun does not accept liability or make any admissions to the allegations,
the NGN spokesperson said