Day: 16 February 2010

News of the World may offer Max Clifford cash to settle illegal phone hacking case – The Guardian

Posted February 16th, 2010 in interception, media, news, telecommunications by sally

“The News of the World is believed to be planning to settle a court case which threatens to disclose further evidence of the involvement of its ­journalists in illegal information-gathering by private investigators. According to one source at the paper, executives have devised a plan to block the case by offering money to the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to persuade him to settle his legal action over the illegal ­interception of his voicemail messages.”

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The Guardian, 15th February 2010

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Media asks court to reinstate criticism of MI5 in Binyam Mohamed case – The Times

Posted February 16th, 2010 in news by sally

“Britain’s senior judges will rethink this week their controversial decision to excise damning criticism of MI5 from a ruling published last week. Lawyers for leading British and American media organisations have written to the Court of Appeal asking the judges to reinstate a paragraph — which disclosed how much M15 had been told about the torture of the Guantánamo Bay detainee, Binyam Mohamed — that they removed from their draft judgment after representations from the Foreign Secretary.”

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The Times, 16th February 2010

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk