– Liz Hurley is one of seven people, including the Duke of Sussex, Sir Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, suing the publisher of the Daily Mail over allegations of unlawful information gathering.

– Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) strongly denies wrongdoing and is defending the claims.

– Liz Hurley explained that she was “devastated” by the allegation that her home landlines had been tapped and that microphones had been placed under her windowsills to capture private conversations.

– Liz Hurley explained that she never gave her friends permission to speak to journalists on her behalf. One Daily Mail article from 2002 referenced in court featured details she says she never shared about her son, Damian.

– The actress was quizzed about her relationship with ex-boyfriend, Hugh Grant, and his connection to press reform campaign group, Hacked Off.

– Liz Hurley revealed she found giving evidence and being involved in the case “intimidating”. She told the court: “I don’t really want to be here”.

– In written submissions for the trial, Antony White KC, for ANL, said the allegations of unlawful information gathering by Associated’s journalists, “including of phone hacking and phone tapping, in connection with Ms Hurley or her 10 named associates” are “unsupported by the evidence before the court”.

– While Prince Harry gave his evidence on Wednesday and Liz Hurley spoke today, no one will be speaking from the witness box tomorrow.

– In her written evidence, Liz Hurley explained: “The Mail’s unlawful acts against me involve landline tapping my phones and recording my live telephone conversations, placing surreptitious mics on my home windows, stealing my medical information when I was pregnant with Damian and other monstrous, staggering things. Above all, it was the discovery that The Mail had tapped the landlines of my home phones and tape recorded my live telephone conversations that devastated me. I had not come across this brutal invasion of privacy in either of my two battles with the other newspapers. I felt crushed. It represented the ultimate violation of privacy.”