Sentences with phrase «of phone hacking told»

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».

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Its legal representative at the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, told Lord Justice Leveson that critics of the police were in danger of «looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope», as it was far from clear private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's notes that a large number of people were victims of phone - hacking.

Rupert Murdoch has blamed «one or two individuals» for not telling him about phone - hacking at the News of the World in his appearance at the Leveson inquiry.

Carole Caplin, the former fitness adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced that the Metropolitan police had told her that her mobile phone was probably hacked, dating back to 2002 — along with the Milly Dowler case in the same year, this is one of the earliest cases so far discovered.

The former Labour leader had told ministers that their decision to axe Leveson had been «contemptible» and it was a «matter of honour about the promises we made» to the victims of phone hacking.

On 18 July, former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare, who was the first reporter to tell of «endemic» phone hacking at the publication for which he used to work, was found dead at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire.

Also on 3 August, Piers Morgan issued a statement through CNN, his employer, that «I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone.»

He had told parliamentary committees that there was «never any evidence» of phone hacking beyond the case of Clive Goodman.

These charges were made about one year after the Metropolitan Police Service reopened its dormant investigation into phone hacking, [259] about three years after the then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that «no additional evidence has come to light,» [56] five years after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single «rogue reporter,» [260] ten years after The Guardian began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal acquisition of confidential information, [261] and 13 years after the Met began accumulating «boxloads» of that evidence but kept it unexamined in bin bags at Scotland Yard.

«For the past 19 months, I have fought to hold the Metropolitan police to account for its unwillingness to investigate illegal phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World,» he told the Hull Daily Mail newspaper.

In a dramatic interrogation, former legal manager Tom Crone and News of the World editor Colin Myler told MPs that Mr Murdoch was informed the practise of phone - hacking went beyond «one rogue reporter» well before he had claimed.

David Cameron told the House of Commons that Lord Justice Leveson is to head the public inquiry into phone hacking allegations.

Weeting has been told to focus on one private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire; on one illegal technique, phone - hacking; which he deployed for the one newspaper which paid him on a full - time contract, the News of the World.

Mr Yates told MPs on two separate Commons committees last week that police only found ten to 12 victims of phone - hacking because prosecutors had instructed them that that hacked messages needed to have been heard before their intended recipient.

He told the Commons» home affairs committee that he had an «effective veto» over the choice of who would replace Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned from the job at the height of the phone - hacking scandal.

The acting deputy commissioner told MPs that the Met had failed to investigate sufficient cases of phone - hacking because it had operated under previous Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidelines, which found that a crime had only been committed if voicemails were hacked before the intended recipient heard them.

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.

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.

He told Sue Akers — the Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner who is leading the phone - hacking and email - hacking investigations — that three senior Sunday Times journalists, whom he named, were aware of the «blagging» techniques used to access his personal details.

William Hague, the foreign secretary, was also asked about the phone - hacking trial on Sunday, telling the same programme that the exposure of the scandal had led to a «greater distance now between politicians and the press».

Parts of the proecution case against Rebekah Brooks have been run like a medieval witch - hunt, the phone - hacking trial has been told.

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.

In the heat of the the phone - hacking scandal, he told Prospect magazine:

Ex-News of the World editor tells phone - hacking trial he takes «full responsibility» for pain relationship caused his wife.

Tonight John Prescott, one of those whose phone they say was hacked into, tells us he's outraged the police have taken no action.

Mr Yates had earlier told MPs he expected to discuss renewed phone - hacking claims by journalists working for the News of the World with Downing Street's communications director Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor.

The Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner leading the investigation into phone hacking has told the inquiry into media ethics that evidence of payments made by The Sun suggests a «network of corrupted officials.»

John Prescott's mobile phone was reported to have been one of those hacked into, Jon Snow spoke to him on the phone from Cumbria and asked him if the police or anyone else had told him his phone had been tapped?

Extensive Mr Coulson came under renewed pressure last week after former journalists told the New York Times that the practice of phone - hacking was far more extensive than the newspaper acknowledged at the time.

A senior Labour MP tells Channel 4 News there is now enough evidence to re-open the Commons Select committee inquiry into allegations of phone - hacking by journalists at the News of the World.

Rebekah Brooks last night told the News of the World's staff that she had no option but to close Britain's best - selling Sunday newspaper because it had become a «toxic brand» because of the slew of phone - hacking revelations.

Paul McMullan, former News of the World deputy features editor, told the Guardian newspaper this morning that David Cameron's communications chief «would certainly be well aware that the practice was pretty widespread,» and the paper reported that Paul McMullan «claims that phone - hacking and other illegal reporting techniques were rife at the tabloid while... Andy Coulson was deputy editor and then editor of the paper.»

Tom Watson, the MP who has been pushing for a full investigation of the claims, told the BBC the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone «was the most disgraceful and egregious invasion of privacy we could imagine».

«I've spoken to people that have had websites set up in their name requesting child pornography, their bank accounts hacked and money stolen from their account, and their employer phoned and told they were alcoholics,» says Amy Binns at University of Central Lancashire.

«I»VE spoken to people that have had websites set up in their name requesting child pornography, their bank accounts hacked and money stolen from their account, and their employer phoned and told they were alcoholics,» says Amy Binns at the University of Central Lancashire.

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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has still not been told the names of the 22 law firms alleged to have used private investigators implicated in the phone hacking scandal.

«We have certainly seen a rash of issues in the last two years that have appeared to be suspicious,» Blaich told us, «from the software vendor Adups that is popular on BLU phones (uncovered by Kryptowire), to the social media organized mobile hacking services of the Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) persona that continues to find a number of issues in OnePlus phones (and others) regarding egregious data collection in certain geolocations.»