Sentences with phrase «of phone hacking»

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

The newspaper is closing down amid an expanding police investigation of phone hacking into missing girls and grieving families as well as celebrities, and the alleged press bribery of police officers for information.

Police have arrested seven people in their investigation of phone hacking, and two others in a parallel investigation of alleged bribery of police officers for information.

Yesterday, we discovered that during this period in 2009 Mr Brown attempted to order an independent inquiry into the growing allegations of phone hacking at News International.

James Weatherup's arrest comes as the investigation into allegations of phone hacking at the newspaper picks up speed.

Bryant, who was compensated with # 30,000 by the newspaper company after it was revealed he was a victim of phone hacking by the News of the World, said he also believed the move was premature given the Crown Prosecution Service is said to be still considering corporate charges against News Corp..

[234] The statement omitted comment on whether he had any knowledge of phone hacking by employees or paid contractors of the Mirror during the period he was editor there.

It also sold its stake in News International (now known as News UK) in 2012, in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.

«This is a victory for people up and down this country who have been appalled by the revelations of the phone hacking scandal and the failure of News International to take responsibility,» Labour leader Ed Miliband said.

The PCC's subsequent report failed to uncover any evidence of any phone hacking by any newspaper beyond that revealed at Goodman's trial.

Recently, amid much public, political, and press noise about the use of phone hacking by newspapers, David Cameron announced a total of three inquiries, although a number of criminal and civil proceedings were already afoot, as well as internal inquiries, Parliamentary Select Committee hearings, parliamentary debates, and even an FBI investigation.

There were signs of panic in Downing Street last night as the Prime Minister faced mounting pressure from all political parties to block the plans by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to take full ownership of BSkyB because of the phone hacking scandal engulfing his UK newspaper group.

Mr Coulson then appeared in front of the media committee to tell MPs he was unaware of a widespread culture of phone hacking at the newspaper when he was in charge.

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

Mr Lewis is also calling for a full independent inquiry into the conduct of the British press as a result of the phone hacking scandal, in which News Corporation is heavily implicated.

[156] As part of his role at the publisher, Crone had served as the News of the World's chief lawyer and gave evidence before parliamentary committees, that he had uncovered no evidence of phone hacking beyond the criminal offences committed by the royal editor Clive Goodman.

The police cited a narrow definition of phone hacking from the DPP as the reason behind its limited original investigation.

The decision to pass the CPS the file brings to a close another chapter in the long - running saga of phone hacking at news of the World.

Wallis was arrested last week on suspicion of phone hacking, and the furore surrounding his hiring by the Metropolitan police between October 2008 and September 2009 has led to the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, and the Met's assistant commissioner John Yates, who both gave evidence on Tuesday.

Kelvin MacKenzie told the then News International boss, Rebekah Brooks, and Sun editor, Dominic Mohan, he was quitting as a columnist in 2011 because he thought they had kept the full extent of phone hacking from him, according to evidence presented as part of a civil case against the newspaper's publisher on Thursday.

KC discussing the cultural shift in the press, subtle allusion to Tony Blair refuting the notion that the development of spin in some way contributed to the development of the phone hacking saga.

Channel 4 News contacted Mr McMullan to ask how reporters would not have known about the illegality of phone hacking in lieu of having attended the seminars.

The U.K. investigation of phone hacking appears still to be at an early stage.

Rebekah Brooks, who is now on bail after being arrested on charges of phone hacking and corruption, was lent the horse by the Met police in 2008.

But he also sought to halt the slump in his own fortunes by trying to explain, once again, why he had hired as his chief spokesman Andy Coulson, who was the editor of The News of the World when, the police say, much of the phone hacking and at least some of the bribery appears to have taken place.

[71] Operation Weeting would take place alongside the previously announced review of phone hacking evidence by the Crown Prosecution Service.

10:28 - Murdoch says he did not receive a briefing on the trial and conviction of Goodman [royal editor first found guilty of phone hacking].

He resigned from the Sunday paper when its royal editor, Clive Goodman, was convicted of phone hacking.

Rupert Murdoch defiantly insisted on Tuesday he was not responsible for what he called «sickening and horrible invasions» of privacy committed by his company, claiming he had been betrayed by disgraceful unidentified colleagues and had known nothing of the cover - up of phone hacking.

The judgments came after lawyers representing alleged victims of phone hacking told the judge that News Group has «consistently failed to provide proper disclosure and to meet its disclosure obligations».

Convinced Coulson had known nothing of phone hacking (and presumably unaware that Coulson and [Rebekah] Brooks had been lovers), the prime minister ignored at least three high - level warnings about bringing him into government.»

Both Murdochs said they were unaware of any phone hacking.

Chief executive cleared of phone hacking to head Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper operations as former Telegraph editor takes over tabloid

The committee also predicted it would likely have to revisit the topic of the phone hackings because of the recent torrent of new information released surrounding them.

The parliamentary sleaze watchdog is to investigate claims of phone hacking surrounding David Cameron's chief spin doctor.

In 2011, when the new revelations of phone hacking broke, Hinton offered his resignation and it was accepted.

We have details of private emails between Osborne, Cameron and Steve Hilton, and we learn that the non-dom charge to pay for the inheritance tax pledge was dreamed up by Osborne in a hammock in Corfu, yet it is somehow «unclear» whether Osborne and Cameron asked Andy Coulson if he had known about any instances of phone hacking.

Guilty consciences all around Fleet Street as no - one seriously doubts that the culture of phone hacking goes well beyond one rogue reporter at the News of the World.

Tom is probably best know for his forensic grilling of Rupert Murdoch and his high - profile role in the exposure of phone hacking at the now shut News of the World.

• Don Foster, a Lib Dem culture spokesman, has said that Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, should stop the police attempt to get the Guardian to reveal the sources of its phone hacking stories.

There is «no smoking gun» to support prosecution claims that Rebekah Brooks was the architect of phone hacking at the News of the World, a jury has been told.