Rupert Murdoch
The Guardian newspaper in London is reporting, "Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, and Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former spin doctor, have lost a last ditch attempt to get their prosecution over alleged phone hacking dropped."
Rebekah Brooks
The Judiciary Report welcomes the news, as too many people have been violated by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and its affiliates. The case needs to be heard in a court of law. Convictions need to be returned on this unlawful conduct that came straight from the top. My only regret is Murdoch is not the one on trial.
Andy Coulson
The judge stated in the ruling, "We must not be unrealistic. There can hardly be anyone in the country who does not know to whom this case applies." Yes, there is a great lack of realism at News Corp. When one detaches from reality, one runs the risk of thinking all misbehavior is acceptable and engaging in conduct that ruins lives - including your own - as we've see via the arrests in the case.
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Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks fail to get
phone-hacking cases dropped
Friday 28 June 2013 09.17 EDT - Former News International boss and David Cameron's former spin doctor go to court of appeal in bid to halt prosecutions. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, and Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former spin doctor, have lost a last ditch attempt to get their prosecution over alleged phone hacking dropped.
The court of appeal on Friday morning made the ruling after Coulson sought to have the hacking case against him removed on the grounds that the law did not extend to voicemails that had already been listened to...
Lord Judge allowed the names of the Weeting defendants to be reported today on the grounds that there was no one in the country who did not know who they were. "We must not be unrealistic. There can hardly be anyone in the country who does not know to whom this case applies." He also refused leave to appeal to the supreme court...
