The Oxford inventors say their machine allows the liver to recover from damage it has sustained and enables medical staff to test the viability of the organ to see whether it is likely to work before being transplanted into the patient.
Beyond the usual tests, CHLI charts all sorts of extra parameters including three measures of arterial inflammation and an experimental test that looks in my urine for DNA damage.
The size of the awards against the News of the World will depend on the view taken by Sir Geoffrey Vos, a High Court judge, of the actual damage to hacking victims, as well as of the intrusion itself, when he hears test cases later this year.