Sentences with phrase «for victims of phone hacking»

«It's important for the victims of phone hacking that this has now been properly dealt with by the courts; and it matters for us all that we have a free and vibrant press which operates within the law,» he said.

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Former communications chief was arrested Friday over allegations of phone hacking celebrities and murder victims and bribing police for information.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire on Thursday shut down the 168 - year - old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers.

The scandal exploded collapsed this week after it was reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of 13 - year - old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her.

In the United States, meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation into claims that News Corp. journalists may have sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims in its quest for sensational scoops.

Very quickly, Mark Reckless gets in a quick question about the MPA's funding of legal fees against Mark Lewis, the lawyer in relation to phone - hacking for the family of murder victim Milly Dowler.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

He apologised to workers at News of the World for having «panicked» in the face of the anger targeted at him, after it emerged teenage murder victim Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked.

A small number of victims of phone hacking engaged solicitors and made civil claims for invasion of privacy.

[71] Mark Lewis, the solicitor acting for a number of phone hacking victims including the family of Milly Dowler, stated in evidence that he was sacked from his job when fellow partners at his law firm stated they no longer wished to pursue other victims» claims.

They point out that Cameron made clear in his own evidence to the inquiry that the big test for the reforms» success would be if they had the confidence of the victims of phone - hacking.

The phone - hacking scandal that has engulfed British media and politics could be imported over the Atlantic as both U.S. Reps. Peter King and Louise Slaughter call for investigations in whether Rupert Murdoch's journalists tried to access voice mails of Sept. 11 victims.

Journalists working for that paper, along with The Times of London and Sun have been accused of hacking into voice mails of murder victims, soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and into the phones of celebrities, politicians and members of the royal family.

actor, who was a victim of the 2014 phone hack in which her private nude photos were leaked to the internet, said she feared backlash for her choice.

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.»

Taylor Hampton's Lewis is set to arrive in the US this weekend to begin discussions with New York civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel over legal action for three alleged victims of phone - hacking described as a «well - known sports person», a sports person not in the public eye and a US citizen.