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The legal rule that means even Hugh Grant can’t afford to take his case to trial

By Megan Shirley, Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University
Lawyers often tell their clients that “principles cost money”. As actor Hugh Grant’s decision to settle his privacy claim against News Group Newspapers (NGN) shows, sometimes principles just cost too much.

Grant announced he had reluctantly accepted an “enormous sum of money” to settle his claim against the Murdoch-owned NGN, the publisher of…The Conversation


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