Vodafone has agreed to hand over call data relating to actor Sienna Miller, following a legal ruling that could set a precedent for other public figures suing the News of the World over allegations of phone hacking.
Miller’s legal team obtained a high court order requiring the mobile phone company to reveal who dialled Miller’s voicemail number and that of publicist Ciara Parkes, who represented Miller, in an apparent attempt to access their messages.
Similar orders are now expected to be obtained by other litigants as lawyers acting for over a dozen well-known people attempt to build cases against the News of the World and Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who was on the paper’s books.
Mulcaire and the paper’s former royal editor Clive Goodman were jailed in January 2007 for illegally intercepting voicemail messages. Mulcaire denies targeting Milller.
Miller’s barrister, Hugh Tomlinson, told the high court that his client needed to access mobile phone data belonging to “third parties” in order to identify who called her mobile phone voicemail number.