The exposure began with moderately anxiety-provoking situations and increased to the most distressing fear and was conducted therapist-accompanied within the therapy sessions as well as in homework assignments.
Dismissing the appeal on Thursday, Lady Justice Arden said: "MGN cannot expect this court to come to its rescue and find some way of finding the awards to be excessive when its staff have been responsible for disgraceful conduct with such distressing consequences, and when to boot it is quite unable itself to point to actual awards that it contends are wrong.
With 80 other hacking cases already in progress against MGN, and a further 50 individuals who have lodged claims, the Appeal Court's description of journalists responsible for "disgraceful conduct with such distressing consequences" is likely to act as a green light for further potential victims to come forward.
Many of our people with MS were very disabled, making interviews sometimes more difficult to conduct and potentially distressing for interviewers.
In a statement released on Friday, Sargeant said: "I met with the first minister today and he informed me allegations had been made about my personal conduct, which was shocking and distressing to me.
"The fact that he's not able to conduct that, I know is very distressing".
In that capacity, on occasions, I had to give treatments or conduct tests that were uncomfortable and distressing for the children.
Gardner said the boy's family had conducted themselves with "great dignity in the most distressing circumstances for many years".
The team have considerable experience in addressing ethical challenges in end of life care and stroke research, including conducting and supervising interviews that may potentially be distressing for patients and families.
When David Robertson first conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1996, he had the distressing experience of leading a performance of Janacek's "Makropulos Case" in which a tenor died onstage.
Trained healthcare personnel carried out the interviews, which were usually conducted in two consecutive visits in order to avoid distressing and tiring the respondents.
