Points from today’s hearing include:
- The Inquiry hearings proper are likely to start in the second week of November and then “not stop”. Counsel for the Inquiry said he could foresee it going on for “three or four years”
- The victims are likely to be the first to give evidence.
- Witnesses will be given advance notice of topic areas arising from their statements on which they will be questioned.
- All the recipients of requests for evidence under section 21 have engaged with the inquiry.
- Trinity Mirror wants access to the “inner workings” of the Inquiry, without being a core participant. This application was refused
[Update] There is a fuller report of the hearing on the Press Inquiry site.
Secondly, at 2.00pm in Court 14, the privacy trial in Trimingham v Associated Newspapers began before Mr Justice Tugendhat. Ms Trimingham is represented by William Bennett (instructed by Mishcon de Reya) and Associated Newspapers by Antony White QC and Alexandra Marzec (instructed by RPC). This is only the fourth privacy trial in a case against the media – following Campbell, Mosley and Ferdinand. This hearing continues tomorrow.
Finally, we have previously posted about an application on by Associated Newspapers on Wednesday 28 September 2011. The Inquiry has now posted the following documents relating to this hearing:
- 28 September Hearing transcript (MS Word 189kb)
- Letter from RPC Solicitors sent on behalf of Associated Newspapers (PDF 587kb)
- Submission on behalf of Associated Newspapers (PDF 1.66mb)