Sentences with phrase «with victims of phone hacking»

By March 2010, News International had spent over # 2 million settling court cases with victims of phone hacking.

Not exact matches

«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.

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..

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.

But the PM's rhetoric - protecting the interests of newspaper editors - clashes with Miliband's focus on the victims of phone - hacking.

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz said: «The evidence of Assistant Commissioner John Yates today raised a number questions of importance about the law on phone - hacking, the way the police deal with such breaches of the law and the manner in which victims are informed of those breaches,» he said.

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.