Beyond Contempt: The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0993040705 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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They were variously accused of breaches of the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act 2000 (RPIA) relating to phone hacking); the corruption of a Ministry of Defence official and police from the Royal and Diplomatic Protection Squad (the common-law offence of Conspiracy to Commit Misconduct in Public Office); and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, over the cover up of hacking by Murdoch's tabloid newspaper group, News International. The court also heard secret tape recordings made by Clive Goodman after his arrest and saw emails perpetuating the cover-up within News International. In this factu
Top court reporting (Nick Davies, The Guardian) Remarkable. I feel I now know all the key players and why some defendants were found guilty and some not, despite never having spent a minute at the trial (Professor Stewart Purvis, former ITN editor) Written in a chatty, gossipy style that brings the courtroom drama alive. (Nigel Pauley, Daily Star journalist) Absorbing and highly revealing What's striking is how the mass of cash Rupert Murdoch threw at the defence disrupted, disturbed and thwarted the prosecution (Dan Waddell
the sheer hypocrisy G. Davis Beyond the brilliance of the route to guilty and not guilty stories Peter Jukes tells, there is still a deeper and more disturbing layer to this whole immoral tale. And that is the profit that News UK makes at the expense of its victims; the immorality and hypocrisy of an organisation which perverts justice and exercises power and influence but which seemingly rejects the idea that it, too, should play b
For this he was named Reporter of Year on Twitter and social media by the Press Gazette. Peter Jukes is a dramatist, screenwriter and journalist based in London. He authored an earlier book about the phone hacking scandal, The Fall of the House of Murdoch. . He also writes non fiction for magazines and newspapers, including the In