Saturday, 17 September 2011
Official Secrets & The Fourth Estate.
The arrest of journalists and pressure on The Guardian to reveal their sources is a retrograde step we believe.This follows leaks in the investigation into hacking in the Milly Dowler affair. There is to be an application by the Met Police in court next week to force the key Guardian documents to be disclosed. This is under section 5 of the Official Secrets Act 1989.
We also understand that there are officers from outside the Met who are being brought in by the new Commissioner to look into the phone hacking investigation. Lawyers from M23law have experience of dealing with aspects of Official Secrets.
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On a similar but separate note I see that News International are ready to pay in excess of £2 million to the Dowlers over phone hacking.
Whilst I accept the hurt and harm caused by the hacking and deleting of voicemails £2 million seems a ludicrous amount of money to settle for (particularly as that implies they would get more money at trial). That's the level of damages one would expect for someone who had been braindamaged not just for some illegal, and distressing, phone hacking.
It's all relative when you get around £2million every two months for missing an open goal in Manchester.
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