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She honored those traces even as she ironically nailed their indefensible triviality.

Mirror lawyer Andrew Green said a substantial proportion of the articles at issue involved a “breathtaking level of triviality” and that with the exception of a few instances of unlawful information gathering, the company’s reporters had used public records and sources to legally obtain information.

Mirror lawyer Andrew Green said a substantial proportion of the articles at issue involved a “breathtaking level of triviality” and that with the exception of a few instances of unlawful information gathering, the company’s reporters had used public records and sources to legally obtain information.

He also took aim at the newspaper articles submitted as evidence of illicit newsgathering, saying they offered a "breathtaking level of triviality".

Evidence of call data to back up their phone-hacking allegations was “slim to utterly non-existent”, and a large proportion of stories involved were of a “breathtaking level of triviality”, many of which the claimants had not read at the time.