Sentences with phrase «celebrity phone hacking scandal»

Recently we saw the re-emergence of the celebrity phone hacking scandal.

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The sordid details of the scandal instantly turned the phone - hacking row from a celebrity - orientated issue into something much more serious.

MPs have this week approved a new parliamentary inquiry into the phone hacking scandal following fresh allegations that the News of the World repeatedly hacked into celebrities» phones when the prime minister's communications director Andy Coulson was editor.

However as the recent scandal in the UK concerning the hacking of phones of celebrities, the bereaved etc shows, the public interest is not always the same thing as that which interests the public.

However, Steven Heffer, partner at Collyer Bristow, which acted for many of the celebrities affected by phone hacking, said: «It is astonishing that the government is abandoning it promises to victims of the phone - hacking scandal.»