Analysis: News Group Newspapers has always preferred to settle claims against the Sun rather than defend itself in court
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers this week agreed a substantial settlement with the
Actor Sienna Miller, ensuring that her claims of phone hacking at the Sun did not go to trial.
Why does the publisher of the Sun keep paying substantial sums of money to settle cases alleging illegality at the Sun?It is now 15 years since Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers was first having to address the use of illegal voicemail interception by its journalists.