LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Supreme Court hasrejected an attempt by Trinity Mirror to reduce theamount of compensation it must pay eight people who had theirphones hacked by staff working for the newspaper group.
Trinity, which publishes the Daily Mirror tabloid, hadsought permission to appeal an earlier ruling ordering it to pay1.2 million pounds ($1.7 million) in damages to victims, a muchhigher sum than those awarded to other claimants in earliersettlements.
The Supreme Court said on Wednesday it had refused Trinity'sappeal. "The Court ordered that permission to appeal be refusedbecause the application does not raise an arguable point oflaw," it said.($1 = 0.7060 pounds) (Reporting by Kate Holton, editing by Estelle Shirbon)