Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

22 February 2012 Dear Prime Minister,
 The Hacked Off campaign was surprised and concerned to hear the Secretary of State for Education’s comments in relation to the Leveson Inquiry made in a speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery yesterday (Tuesday, February 21), and even more concerned to hear you expressing support to Michael Gove’s statement [...]

The editor in chief of the Daily Mail has returned to the Leveson Inquiry today to answer questions about actor Hugh Grant Paul Dacre was questioned by David Sherborne, counsel for the core participant victims, over a Mail on Sunday article claiming a “plummy-voiced executive” leaving messages on Grant’s phone had caused the breakdown of [...]

A former News of the World news editor has claimed there was a culture of bullying at the paper. Ian Edmondson said every part of the paper had been dictated by the editor and told the Leveson Inquiry editor Colin Myler, who replaced Andy Coulson following his resignation in 2007, continued a “culture of bullying” in the [...]

Heather Mills has firmly denied allowing former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan to listen to her voicemails. Morgan implied in his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry that Mills, or someone close to her, had played a recording of Sir Paul McCartney singing down the phone following an argument in 2001. He refused to reveal his source [...]

The director of the Media Standards Trust has urged the Leveson Inquiry to implement radical changes in the regulation of the press. Martin Moore, a founder of the Hacked Off campaign, said it is necessary to protect the public and journalism in the public interest, and said a review group formed by the MST plans to [...]

An interim policy on the prosecution of journalists will be ready within a matter of weeks, the Director of Public Prosecutions has said today. Keir Starmer QC told the Leveson Inquiry said he was “pretty sure” he has jurisdiction over offences relating to personal data breaches. He is expected to give further evidence at a [...]