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| Jude Law gives evidence at phone-hacking trial | Jude Law gives evidence at phone-hacking trial |
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| Actor Jude Law has started giving evidence at the Old Bailey in London as part of the phone-hacking trial. | Actor Jude Law has started giving evidence at the Old Bailey in London as part of the phone-hacking trial. |
| He told the jury the media seemed to have "an unhealthy amount of information" about his life. | He told the jury the media seemed to have "an unhealthy amount of information" about his life. |
| The actor also said photographers would turn up at places where he had secretly arranged to take his children. | The actor also said photographers would turn up at places where he had secretly arranged to take his children. |
| Former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are on trial accused of conspiring to hack mobile phones, charges they deny. | |
| There are seven defendants in total, with some of them facing allegations of illegal payments to public officials and, separately, allegations of attempts to hide potential evidence. All seven deny the charges. | |
| 'Already there' | |
| Mr Law told the court press attention began to intensify when he was nominated for an Oscar in 2001 for The Talented Mr Ripley. | |
| It grew during his divorce from actress Sadie Frost, and his relationship with Sienna Miller, also an actress. | |
| "The daily appearance of packs of photographers either on the street or in cars became a very regular occurrence," he told the jury. | |
| He said he would make secret arrangements to go to places, "and the media were already there". | |
| Mr Law said that when police showed him the notes that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had held about him, he was "shocked" at the amount of information accumulated. |