Phone hacking: News of the World bosses ordered emails to be deleted

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9102231/Phone-hacking-News-of-the-World-bosses-ordered-emails-to-be-deleted.html

By Gordon Rayner and Mark Hughes
9:30PM GMT 23 Feb 2012
The documents, released to The Daily Telegraph by a High Court judge, says the policy’s stated aim was “to eliminate in a consistent manner” emails that “could be unhelpful in the context of future litigation in which a News International company is a defendant”.

Hundreds of thousands of emails were deleted “on nine separate occasions”, computers were destroyed and one senior executive told an underling to remove seven boxes of paper records relating to them from the company’s storage facility.

Clive Goodman, the royal reporter who was jailed for phone hacking in 2007, claimed during an internal employment hearing that "all of the stories" he wrote in his final two years at the News of the World "were based on phone hacking”, the court papers state.

The court document was created by lawyers for a series of phone hacking victims and is based on information they have been provided by News International’s Management and Standards Committee.

[pacalo]

1. I hope at least one of their victims takes their case to court.

Murdoch's got some 'splainin' to do.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Cherie Blair (Tony's wife)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101458192

though Charlotte Church just settled - for about £180,000 damages: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/23/charlotte-church-phone-hacking-case

[pacalo]

4. I guess we'll find out next week if she settles; I sure hope not.

I had googled to find out if Milly Dowler's parents had settled & it turns out that they did. That was an especially horrible scandal.

There are other cases coming up:

(From 3 hours ago...)

The settlements may have stopped potentially embarrassing disclosures from being aired in open court, but dozens more cases are in the pipeline and a report in the Daily Telegraph late Thursday showed that documents still had a way of leaking out into the public domain.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnvlLLdxGI45Lv6CmQk5pdtPCl1Q?docId=b708385d4e8a43768d97385e783374ee

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2. And this is just one company that was caught

There must be others that haven't been caught yet. Then you have companies like google, fb, advertisers tracking your whereabouts, government and even my dog keeping track of what room I'm in. At least people have their thoughts in their head to themselves...so far.

[pacalo]

5. You too?

even my dog keeping track of what room I'm in

[AndyTiedye]

6. Is Obstruction of Justice a Criminal Offense in the UK?

[dipsydoodle]

7. Not called that here.

Referred to as perverting the course of justice in the UK.

See here : http://www.inbrief.co.uk/offences/perverting-the-course-of-justice.htm

Might hinge on whether or not charges had already been bought prior to an event classed as "perverting" going by the examples they've quoted under notable cases. Maybe a matter of whether or not anything can be classed as evidence prior to charges.