Taylor Hampton’s Mark Lewis has filed four phone-hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), with the claims representing the first legal action to be launched against a newspaper group other than News International (NI).

Lewis filed the claims in the High Court yesterday (22 October) on behalf of former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, former Blackburn Rovers captain Garry Flitcroft, and the Beckham family’s former nanny Abbie Gibson.