Grant settles privacy case against Sun publisher

Actor Hugh Grant has settled a privacy case against the publisher of the Sun newspaper, a court has been told.

The star claimed journalists used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house, his lawyer said in court documents on Wednesday.

Grant, alongside Prince Harry, was suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) for alleged widespread unlawful information gathering.

The terms of the settlement have not been made public.

Grant's case was one of several cases that were eligible to go to trial at London's High Court in January, but the actor said on Wednesday that he had agreed to settle.

He is best known for films such as Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Paddington 2.

He has also been a prominent campaigner on press reform since the phone-hacking scandal emerged more than a decade ago.

Grant previously brought a case against NGN in relation to the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, which was settled in 2012.

That came a year after the newspaper was shut down by media mogul Rupert Murdoch following a public backlash to hacking revelations.

NGN has previously rejected allegations of any wrongdoing by staff at the Sun, having settled more than 1,000 cases without making any admission of liability in relation to the paper.

It has not yet publicly commented on the latest settlement with Grant.