LONDON (AP) — Four alleged phone hacking victims have filed suit against the publisher of Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper, a tabloid once edited by CNN presenter Piers Morgan, a prominent lawyer said late Monday. As far as is publicly known, the lawsuits are the first to hit a publication outside Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. empire and could mark the further expansion of a scandal which has already tarnished a big chunk of Britain’s establishment.

Mark Lewis said the new suits had been filed against the Trinity Mirror Group at Britain’s High Court. He confirmed the claimants’ identities — former England soccer coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, soccer star David Beckham’s family nanny Abbie Gibson, former Blackburn Rovers soccer team captain Garry Flitcroft, and U.K. television actress Shobna Gulati — but gave few other details.