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Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

The cases they will be exploring are understood to relate mainly to celebrities who have come to the US and had their phones hacked while they were in the country. That could constitute a violation of US telecommunications and privacy laws.

It is also understood that a US citizen had his or her phone hacked while in America as a result of hacking into the transatlantic conversation of a foreign-based celebrity who was a friend of the victim.
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We're gonna need a bigger Venn diagram. And more arrows, lots more arrows; both graphic and aerodynamic.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/11/news-international-lawyer-phone-hacking
 
Interesting - thanks.

I love the exchange between Brett the Times Legal manager and Leveson:

LEVESON (reading Foster's statement after Foster had pretended to work out the blogger's identity when he'd actually hacked his e-mail account): “I began to work under the assumption” -- “that if the author was, as claimed, a detective, they probably worked . . .” et cetera. Same question: that simply isn’t accurate, is it?

BRETT: My Lord, we’re being fantastically precise.

LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Oh, I am being precise because this is a statement being submitted to a court, Mr Brett.

BRETT: Yes.

LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Would you not want me to be precise?

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A good phrase for a burglar to remember when caught climbing out of someone's window with a bag marked 'swag'. "My Lord, we're being fantastically precise".
 
Lovely - no pressure, Keir Starmer:


Police refer journalists' cases to prosecutors

Journalists are among 11 suspects – who also include one police officer – whose cases the CPS is considering
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The announcement came as Britain's top prosecutor published guidelines setting out how journalists may have broken the law.

Starmer said the new rules would help lawyers with the "very difficult decisions".

"The decisions we are going to make are going to be extremely difficult and extremely sensitive," he said.

"We have got to make a decision because these cases are coming. We cannot duck that."
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A CPS spokeswoman said: "We have received:
  • one file for charging advice relating to one journalist and one police officer with relation to alleged offences of misconduct in public office and the Data Protection Act
  • one file for charging advice relating to one journalist and six other members of the public with relation to alleged offences of perverting the course of justice
  • one file for charging advice relating to one journalist with relation to alleged offences of witness intimidation and harassment
  • one file for charging advice relating to one journalist with relation to alleged offences under Ripa
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Anyone in there by the name of Neville, per chance?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/police-refer-journalists-cases-prosecutors
 
New info:
Starmer noted there were now five police operations relating to the fallout from phone hacking, including two previously unknown: Operation Sacha, which relates to the Brooks arrest, and Operation Kilo, looking at leaks from the phone-hacking investigation Operation Weeting.

The remaining police operations are Operation Elveden, looking at corrupt payments made to public officials, and Operation Tuleta, looking at computer hacking by journalists and non-journalists.
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And on the new (prosecution) guidelines:
The announcement came as Britain's top prosecutor published interim guidelines setting out how he would decide whether to prosecute the cases involving journalists. In every instance, the CPS will make its decision based on weighing "the public interest served" by the nature of the news being revealed against "the overall criminality" committed to obtain the required information.

Examples provided were broad, given the lack of case law in the area, but Starmer said that the public interest could be defined by conduct capable of disclosing that "a criminal offence has been committed, is being committed, or is likely to be committed," or that a person is failing to comply with "any legal obligation". As to whether it was right for journalists to expose sexual misconduct, Starmer referred to another potential definition, namely that it could be in the public interest for reporters to be "raising or contributing to an important matter of public debate".

The public prosecutor refused to discuss hypothetical examples, but noted that there were instances where it had previously been deemed that the public interest in a news story outweighed any illegal methods used, including a decision taken by the police not to prosecute the Daily Telegraph for publishing MPs expenses data that was stolen from parliament.
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Hmmm.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/18/met-phone-hacking-files-cps
 
Starmer referred to another potential definition, namely that it could be in the public interest for reporters to be "raising or contributing to an important matter of public debate".
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How charming of dear Keir to so generously throw together a bit of new law on the hoof like that.
 
Murdochs should be up in the next couple of weeks, shouldn't they?
Lord Justice Leveson said media proprietors will give evidence in the weeks beginning 23 April and 8 May.​
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Is there anywhere you can look at who's attending when? Could only find details of previous hearings on the Inquiry website.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Murdochs should be up in the next couple of weeks, shouldn't they?
Is there anywhere you can look at who's attending when? Could only find details of previous hearings on the Inquiry website.
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AFAIK they only publish the official schedule the week before (as do Parliament and the courts - usually Thursday before).

The date for the Murdoch appearance is based on rumour/leak.
 
Sky continue to say: 'it's okay if we conduct an investigation beside that of the police, but we'll just put what we find in the public domain instead of in front of a jury (breaking the criminal law along the way, and risking mistrials). But we're great because.... it's in the public interest'.

The police are obv. a bit fik at times but, Jesus Christ, to imply the police wouldn't look at the emails of husband and wife and they had to do it instead ....

Another of the most humbling days of Rupert's life, I feel sure.
 
The Strand is packed solid with grip trucks, satellite vans and hard-faced people with good hair.

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Huge numbers of journos outside Coulson's house this morning, too. Oddly, though, it appears that Coulson has come to some sort of arrangement with at least some sections of the media - there was actually a gazebo set up on his front drive under which a TV crew were offloading stuff from a truck.....
 
Very keen to see how lawyers get stuck into JM, as opposed to those out-of-their-depth, self-aggrandising .... types on the Select Committee.
 
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