This week’s News International phone hacking meltdown has brought the question of media regulation to the forefront of political debate. A number of commentators (see, for example the Angry Mob blog) have drawn attention to David Cameron’s remarkable U turn on the subject of the PCC – in two months it has been transformed from a body which “has come on a lot in recent years” to one which was “ineffective and lacking in rigour”. Continue reading
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Month: July 2011 (Page 4 of 5)
This is the response of Hacked Off, the campaign for an inquiry into phone hacking, to the statement of the Prime Minister on Friday 8 July 2011
The Hacked Off campaign welcomes the Prime Minister’s statement promising two inquiries following the News of the World phone hacking revelations, in addition to the ongoing criminal investigation by the police. Continue reading
Mr Justice Eady has today continued the harassment injunction granted to Cheryl Cole last month. The singer was not in the High Court today for the public hearing and, indeed, was pictured arriving at Los Angeles LAX airport last night. Continue reading
Today David Cameron has called for a new independent regulatory body to oversee the media thus sounding the death knell for the PCC. This is an interesting contrast to his view – only two months ago – that it was the PCC that there was “still more to be done through the Press Complaints Commission”. Things have moved very quickly this week. The Labour leader Ed Miliband had called the PCC a “toothless poodle”. Continue reading
Politicians from the three main parties, lawyers, academics and celebrities met at the House of Lords on 6 July 2011 to discuss the launch of the campaign for a public inquiry into phone hacking. Continue reading
The phone hacking scandal has claimed its latest and greatest victim to date: the “News of the World” itself. It was announced this afternoon that the last edition edition of the newspaper would be next Sunday, 10 July 2011. The newspaper was founded in 1843 and was acquired by Rupert Murdoch in 1969. Forty two years later it will close. Continue reading
Last month injunction notices were fixed to lampposts outside Cheryl Cole’s former home in North London. Mr Justice Eady granted the interim injunction, referring to ‘XYZ and others’, preventing the pop star from being pursued, placed under surveillance, or photographed at her own home or those of friends and family. Cole was represented by Russells Solicitors and her application was heard in private. Continue reading
Hacked Off – a campaign for a full public inquiry into phone hacking – is going to be launched later today. The petition is now live at www.hackinginquiry.org. Lord Fowler, Lord Cunningham, Chris Bryant MP, Mark Lewis, Adrian Sanders MP, Professor Brian Cathcart, and Martin Moore will officially launch the campaign at the House of Lords on this evening.
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It is not difficult to see why the Millie Dowler phone-hacking allegations have caused such a public, media and political outcry. It exposes a practice that has no boundaries.
It was always a carefully crafted illusion that phone-hacking was limited to the other worldly politicians and celebrities. Continue reading
The phone hacking story will not go away. Yesterday, saw the biggest news story in the case for some time. The Guardian reported that the voicemails of the murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, were hacked into by “News of the World” journalists shortly after her disappearance in March 2002. It was suggested that her voicemails were deleted by the “News of the World” “in order to free up space for more messages”. Continue reading
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