15 more phone-hacking claims against The Sun and The News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers have been settled, with a statement read out in open court this morning on behalf of claimant Sienna Miller.The full statement set out the claimant’s belief that The Sun newspaper was engaged in “prolonged” and “substantial” phone hacking, and personally targeted Ms Miller.The Sun lobbied the court, unsuccessfully, to prevent details of this statement from being read out.Comment:News UK’s desperate and expensive legal strategy to prevent well-evidenced allegations of phone-hacking at The Sun newspaper from being heard has failed. Today’s Statement, approved by the court, sets out in detail Ms Miller’s belief that she was hacked by The Sun newspaper, and that the newspaper relied on illegal means to discover that Ms Miller was pregnant.News UK’s denial of the allegation that phone-hacking occurred at The Sun, while spending ever-larger sums to prevent hacking claims from being tested at trial, is transparent, absurd, and insulting to the victims of press criminality.A drip-drip of further revelations of illegality across the largest newspaper groups have followed the Government’s shameful decision to shut down the Leveson Inquiry in 2018.The Government’s suppression of Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry will prolong the impact of the scandal, while leaving corruption and criminality at large newspaper groups un-investigated.