Sentences with phrase «phone hacks»

Seriously, this guy puts the whole phone hacking scandal to shame.

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.

Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories.

Questions were also raised that summer when a scandal broke about phone hacking.

He says they met phone hacking victims, and promised them this time would be different, parliament would learn lessons from what went wrong, and act, he says.

He claimed that when people stopped him in the street, they most often mentioned his campaigning against phone hacking, his quest to uncover child abuse and his passion for music.

He denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking and resigned because he said a spokesman could no longer continue when he needed a spokesman himself.

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

Rupert Murdoch has met News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to discuss the deepening scandal over phone hacking at News International.

The chances of further prosecutions over phone hacking at news of the World increased today after the Metropolitan police handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service.

DC said there were a series of failures on phone hacking by press, politicians and police and took a cataclysmic event (Milly Dowler) before the whole thing got «opened up in the way it should've done».

Chris Bryant: An edited version of Chris Bryant's speech at the emergency debate on phone hacking in the House of Commons on Wednesday 6 July 2011

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

Mulcaire and the former royal reporter Clive Goodman previously went to jail for phone hacking in 2006.

Due to this function, it is fair to classify modern cell - site simulators as phone hacking devices.

On 6 December 2013, Morgan was interviewed, under caution, by police officers from Operation Weeting investigating phone hacking allegations at Mirror Group Newspapers during his tenure as editor.

Andy Coulson, the No 10 communications chief, found himself in the direct line of fire in the News of the World phone hacking scandal tonight when a former colleague alleged that he issued direct orders to journalists to carry out the illegal practice.

The chairman of News Corp, whose UK newspaper arm News International has come under vehement attack by MPs after revelations of alleged phone hacking at the News of the World, was summoned and has now said he will appear before the Commons Culture Committee on Tuesday

After phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network revealed that the Pope and virtually all Archbishops were acutely aware of the depth of the pedophilia problem since the 1950s, sweeping new policies were implemented under President Gibbs» administration (2040 - 2048).

Ella completed her training at a Corporate City firm and worked on the Operation Weeting phone hacking trial before specialising in family law.

Ed Miliband, Labour leader, calls for Rebekah Brooks, former News of the World editor and current News International chief executive, to consider her position following the new phone hacking revelations.

On 18 July 2011, it was announced that Elizabeth Filkin would lead an inquiry related to the News International phone hacking scandal which would «recommend changes to links between the police and the media, including how to extend transparency.»

Allegations that victims of the 9/11 terror attacks had their mobile phones hacked have prompted an investigation by the FBI.

And people should care about phone hacking because it was being used to run and intimidate their politicians.

Hugh Grant famously won bucketloads in 2012 over News Of The World phone hacking claims.

Coulson resigned on 26 January 2007 over the News of the World phone hacking affair which would several weeks later see the jailing for four months of the paper's Royal correspondent Clive Goodman.

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.

In the recent UK phone hacking saga the running has been made by two newspapers — notably the Guardian with some support in moving the story on at critical junctures from the New York Times.

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

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

have called for investigations into whether they too engaged in phone hacking activities.

[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.

Meanwhile, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched a formal investigation into «the role of solicitors in events surrounding the News of the World phone hacking crisis».

Clegg said he was clear in his mind when it was obvious that phone hacking needed to be looked into by an inquiry that was judge - led with «real teeth» and a broad remit.

So we can't take credit for exposing phone hacking, I think that rests with the Guardian, but certainly I think we gave it a profile which couldn't be ignored by the rest of the press.

After all, he had pressed for an inquiry into phone hacking when Cameron initially didn't.

News International is in the spotlight again as fresh allegations emerge that senior executives at the News of the World discussed phone hacking on a daily basis.

Evgeny Lebedev, who runs several newspapers, including the Independent, has said phone hacking is neither responsible nor ethical in journalism.

Since joining CNBC in 2011, Tausche has reported on a wide variety of high - profile stories, including the historic Brexit vote, the Facebook, Twitter and Alibaba IPOs, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the MF Global bankruptcy and the News Corp. phone hacking scandal.

At its meeting today (14) the Public and Commercial Services union's national executive committee agreed the following statement about the ongoing phone hacking scandal engulfing News International:

On the wider issues around phone hacking, by 53 % to 33 % people think the thorough investigation was worthwhile and 69 % think the CPS was right to attempt the prosecution of Rebekah Brooks and let the jury decide, despite her ultimate acquittal.

The report finds the company «deliberately» tried to «thwart» the 2005 - 6 Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking carried out by the tabloid.

«It appears that the economic crisis, the summer riots and phone hacking did not lead to any greater interest in or knowledge of politics.»

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

One minor consequence of the recent phone hacking scandal in England is an increase in the use of the term «blagging,» new to me.

BREAKING: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Ian Edmondson, Stuart Kuttner, Greg Miskiw, Greg Mulcaire, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup will face phone hacking charges.

[84] The News of the World was said to have made extensive use of Rees» investigative services, including phone hacking, paying him up to # 150,000 a year.

The decision is likely to upset privacy campaigners, who had pointed to substantive New York Times and Guardian investigations strongly implying that Mr Coulson was aware of widespread phone hacking while he was editor of News of the World.