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Phone Hacking Trial: Defence to begin on 19 February 2014 with Rebekah Brooks’ case

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A good comprehensive guide to what will happen next in the phone hacking trial – and also a heads up on two new trials fixed for later this year.

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The defence case in the phone hacking trial will begin on Wednesday 19 February 2014, which is week 14 of the trial.  Each of defendants presents his or her case in the order that their names are on the indictment: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Clive Goodman, Cheryl Carter, Mark Hanna and finally Charlie Brooks.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Sienna Miller, hacked phone messages “feasible”, trial hears – Martin Hickman

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Sienna Miller’s testimony suggests the News of the World could have got the story through phone hacking – and the judge apologises to her for having to go through evidence about her private life to the court.

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Law Miller CraigDay 50, Part 2: Sienna Miller said today that she probably would have left the sort of phone messages that a former News of the World reporter claimed he hacked with the knowledge of the paper’s editor Andy Coulson.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Former NOTW reporter insists Coulson hired him to hack phones – Martin Hickman

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The disclosure about fiddling expenses does indeed happen. The question is did the story come from a source or hacking or both?

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CoulsonDay 50, Part 1: A former News of the World reporter insisted today that Andy Coulson had hired him to hack phones. Dan Evans said he had told Mr Coulson, then the NoW’s editor, about his skills in voicemail interception during a job interview at a London hotel.

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Phone Hacking Trial: NOTW reporter admits mistakes in phone hacking allegations – Martin Hickman

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Dan Evans admits ” flawed recollection” as Andy Coulson’s lawyer demolishes the detail of his evidence – but he insists the encounter over hacking with Coulson took place even if it was a different day.

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media_andy_coulson_2Day 49, Part 2: A long-serving News of the World reporter has admitted making mistakes in his allegations about Andy Coulson’s involvement in phone hacking. At the start of his four-day testimony this week and in his police statement, Dan Evans said he had played the message left by Sienna Miller to Mr Coulson and another journalist at the NoW’s offices in Wapping on Tuesday 27 September 2005.

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Phone Hacking Trial: “Carrying secret” of phone hacking drove NOTW journalist to cocaine, jury hears – Martin Hickman

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This is tragic as well as scandalous. A journalist who says he is employed to illegally hack people in desperation to get a scoop. ends up drinking and taking cocaine. Sad reflection on the fate of some people in our profession.

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Dan Evans 2Day 48, Part 2:  A phone-hacking journalist told the Old Bailey today that he became so depressed at the News of the World that he “self-medicated” with cocaine. Giving evidence at the phone hacking trial, Dan Evans estimated that while at the NoTW he used cocaine “every couple of weeks.”

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Phone Hacking Trial: “Toeing the line”, NOTW phone hacker admits lying in Kelly Hoppen claim – Martin Hickman

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Dan Evans’ admission that he lied in a witness statement about hacking a News of the World target in a previous breach of privacy claim is very interesting. Particularly when he claims in reply to cross examination from Andy Coulson’s QC that he had been caught up in an ” enormous conspiracy” to hide the truth that the News of the World was engaged in large scale phone hacking.

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dan evans credit bbcDay 48, Part 1:  Self-confessed phone hacker Dan Evans admitted lying when he was giving evidence to a court about his attempted voicemail interception of a News of the World target, the Old Bailey heard today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Andy Coulson said Sienna Miller hacked message “brilliant”, trial hears – Martin Hickman

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This evidence adds to Jude Law’s claims of phone hacking and alleges Andy Coulson knew about it . It come after the previous revelation that the News of the World also paid a close relative of Jude Law to tell them of his love woes. The fact that ten other journos are said by Dan Evans to know abut hacking is also fascinating – but they cannot be named for legal reasons.

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Sienna-Miller-012Day 47: Phone hacking supergrass Dan Evans played a recording of a hacked message to Andy Coulson while he was editing the News of the World, the Old Bailey heard today. Evans told the phone hacking trial that after he heard Sienna Miller declaring her love to James Bond actor Daniel Craig, Mr Coulson was “really animated”.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Close relative of Jude Law secretly paid by NOTW for information, trial told – Martin Hickman

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This remarkable evidence should give people an insight into how some tabloid newspapers obtain information.

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Jude LawDay 46:  A close relative of Jude Law was secretly paid by the News of the World for supplying information about the actor, Andy Coulson’s lawyer suggested today. At the Old Bailey, Timothy Langdale QC wrote down and passed to the Hollywood star the names of three associates he suggested had been feeding information to the Sunday tabloid at the time his phone was being hacked.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Brooks complains about “BBC-Guardian Old Labour hit” and Coulson complains about leaks – Martin Hickman

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The evidence disclosed today seems to fit in with a general paranoid view of the world – that a genuine Nick Davies scoop must be the work of a Guardian, BBC and old Labour.Also note the irony in the second part of the tale that Andy Coulson was complaining about the Guardian getting tip offs from the Met Police. The on going trial restricts me from saying more.

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AUTOAHfrt_1_gdn_110705_04__Day 44, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks appeared to believe that reports on the hacking of Milly Dowler were part of a co-ordinated exercise against News International by the BBC, the Guardian newspaper and members of the Labour Party.

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Phone Hacking Trial: hearing resumes tomorrow after seasonal break

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This important trial which is being largely ignored by sections of the mainstream media resumes tomorrow. I will continue to run blogs with short comments on my site of reports by @martin_hickman and documents from @peterjukes with their agreement.

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Phone-hacking trial defendantsThe trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andrew Coulson and five others will resume tomorrow at 2pm at the Old Bailey before Mr Justice Saunders and a jury.  This will be Week 9 of the trial which seems unlikely to conclude before the end of April.

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