"The amount of lost or destroyed documents relating to the Daily Mail publisher's use of private investigators is stark in the extreme, the high court has heard. However, the thin surviving evidence of payments to private investigators contains conspicuous and often shocking evidence, according to lawyers for a group of claimants accusing the publisher of using unlawful techniques."
"There would have been thousands of invoices underpinning these payments [to private investigators], all of which have been destroyed or not located, he said. The difference between the known universe of payments to [private investigators], which is vast, and the small number of invoices which have been disclosed is stark in the extreme."
"Sherborne pointed to two examples in which the existence of documents had allowed the claimants' legal team to draw a link to alleged unlawful activity. One related to a draft story about the actor Sadie Frost's ectopic pregnancy, which was never published."
The high court has heard stark evidence regarding lost documents related to the Daily Mail publisher's use of private investigators. Claimants, including Prince Harry and Elton John, allege unlawful techniques were employed. Lawyers argue that the surviving evidence of payments to investigators is shocking, indicating a vast scale of unlawful information gathering. Despite ANL's claims of conscientious disclosure, many invoices remain missing. A notable example includes a draft story about Sadie Frost, linking invoices to alleged unlawful activity, highlighting the discrepancies in disclosed documents.
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