Associated Newspapers said it feared its reputation could be tarred by evidence given anonymously.
"The concern is about untested evidence that will tend to tar Associated Newspapers with a broad brush, " he said.
The defendant, Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of the Daily Mail, agreed to pay substantial damages along with legal costs.
Ears first pricked up to the idea with The Metro, a free morning paper launched by Associated Newspapers in 1999.
As Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, discovered, what in any other business would look like profligacy is, in newspapers, investment.
According to the Guardian, Lebedev will purchase 76.0% of the evening paper as early as Thursday, leaving the Associated Newspapers Group with 24.0%.
Launched that day by News International , thelondonpaper was going head-to-head with another evening freebie, introduced a week earlier by Viscount Rothermere's Associated Newspapers .
Mark Warby QC, for Associated Newspapers, told the three judges the inquiry had to be fair, both procedurally and "in respect of the reputation" of Associated Newspapers.
The actor Hugh Grant has refused to withdraw his suggestion to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards that Associated Newspapers obtained information about him through phone hacking.
But Associated Newspapers, which also publishes the Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard, said the report's ranking was "utterly meaningless" as it was based on the activities of just one supplier.
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She added that there was only room for one free evening newspaper in London and that it was much closer to the core business of Associated Newspapers than it was to News International.
"Associated Newspapers, in common with all newspapers and broadcasters - and many other organisations, including lawyers - use search agencies to obtain information entirely legitimately from a range of public sources, " it said.
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Lawyers representing Associated Newspapers, which also publishes the Mail on Sunday, challenged a ruling on the admissibility of anonymous evidence at London's High Court before Lord Justice Toulson, Mr Justice Sweeney and Mrs Justice Sharp.
Mr Dacre, also editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Mail and the Mail on Sunday, said he would withdraw the "smears" statement if Grant withdrew his claims the Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday were involved in phone hacking.
Key players, I'm told, were the Telegraph's Lord Black who is the key fix-it man for the industry, Associated Newspapers' Peter Wright, who is the former editor of the Mail on Sunday, the editor of the Times John Witherow and the editor of the FT Lionel Barber.
This year, six of Tribune's seven newspapers dropped The Associated Press for Reuters, citing cost savings.
Streisand's case was dismissed, and Adelman's photo was picked up by the Associated Press and reprinted in newspapers around the world.
Four newspapers and their associated TV networks dominate the media.
Nonetheless, the sale put off some readers, who considered McClatchy's Fresno Bee and Modesto Bee newspapers too dowdy to be associated with the hip, free-wheeling Famous sites.
Most newspapers printed dispatches sent by wire services such as the Associated Press, which extrapolated widespread fear from small numbers of scattered, anecdotal accounts.
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