British actor Hugh Grant and his former girlfriend, socialite Jemima Khan, obtained a court order Wednesday requiring police to hand over evidence indicating their phones may have been hacked.
High Court judge Geoffrey Vos ruled that it was “expedient and proper” that they be able to see information seized in 2006 by police from Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator employed by the now defunct News of the World.
“This has been done to discover whether the information was used in articles by the News of the World and other newspapers,” said a statement from their lawyers, Atkins Thomson, on their website.
Lawyers for Grant and Khan, who were in a relationship for three years before they split in 2007, had asked for the disclosure order during a hearing in London. The application was not opposed by police.