“In this new major report, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, JUSTICE calls for a fundamental overhaul of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in order to protect the right of individual privacy from unnecessary, unwarranted and unchecked state intrusion.”
Justice, 4th Novemver 2011
Source: www.justice.org.uk
“Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act fails to protect individuals from illegal surveillance, according to Justice.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co,uk
“Analysis: Publication of warning to NI bosses tells the story of how secret payoff evolved.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The legal opinion, only now made public, was prepared in June 2008 and referred to the activities of ‘at least three’ journalists.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.”
The Guardian, 30th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police and the Crown Prosecution Service fear suspects in the phone-hacking criminal investigation could try to sabotage prosecutions, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The lawyer who advised News Group to pay £425,000 to Gordon Taylor said today the company was in an unprecedented position because the Professional Footballers Association chief had evidence that his phone had been hacked.”
The Independent, 19th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Leveson inquiry into press regulation and media standards will not start hearing evidence from witnesses until November. It had hoped to get under way in October but will now start ‘before the second week in November’.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The father of Josie Russell, who survived a frenzied hammer attack in which her sister and mother were killed, is suing News International over alleged phone hacking by the News of the World, it emerged yesterday.”
The Independent, 6th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Oral evidence in the first part of the inquiry into media ethics and phone hacking could start next month, Lord Leveson said today.”
The Independent, 4th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two experts on banking and financial services law have been invited to make presentations to the Leveson inquiry as part of its bid to come up with a new model for press regulation in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 26th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former News of the World editor and Downing Street aide Andy Coulson is suing a division of News International after it stopped paying his legal fees over the phone-hacking scandal.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“What is Lord Justice Leveson up to? The judge heading the phone-hacking inquiry is currently planning a series of public seminars on the relationship between the press and the public. Is he right to seek evidence about internal rules in such august institutions as the Guardian and the BBC? Or should he confine himself, as some critics are saying, to investigating the misbehaviour of the tabloid press and the police?”
The Guardian, 21st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police has dropped its attempt to force the Guardian to reveal confidential sources for stories relating to the phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Met police have turned to the Official Secrets Act to obtain Guardian phone hacking material. In 2000 they lost a similar case relating to former MI5 spy David Shayler.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard officers failed to consult either the director of public prosecutions or the attorney general before invoking the Official Secrets Act to try to force the Guardian to reveal journalistic sources, it has been revealed.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have been offered £3 million in damages from News International after the publisher of the News of the World admitted her phone had been hacked.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police are seeking a court order under the Official Secrets Act to make Guardian reporters disclose their confidential sources about the phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 16th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The new Metropolitan Police commissioner has said the force’s relationship with the media ‘has gone too far’.”
BBC News, 15th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Durham Police have launched a review of the Metropolitan Police’s phone-hacking inquiry, Scotland Yard has announced.”
BBC News, 15th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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