Solicitor's Phones Hacked By News Of The World (Clients Incl Julian Assange/Wikileaks)

[kpete]

Source: Channel 4 News

Friday 22 July 2011


High-profile media lawyer Mark Stephens has revealed to Channel 4 News that police have confirmed he is among the 4,000 potential News of the World phone-hack victims.

His name appears in Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks, which police are currently trawling. Sixty officers working for Operation Weeting are contacting people whose mobile phone numbers were listed by the private investigator, who served a jail sentence for phone hacking in 2007.

Mr Stephens told Channel 4 News he contacted Scotland Yard to ask if his phone had been targeted. He said: "I asked them if I'd been hacked - they came back to me in 90 mins and said yes."
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Mr Stephens's former clients include James Hewitt, who had an affair with Princess Diana, and most recently the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.



Read more: http://www.channel4.com/news/solicitors-phones-hacked-by-news-of-the-world

[Kingofalldems]

1. Rupert's henchmen were quite busy weren't they?

[beac]

2. K&R. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[kpete]

4. you know what Uncle Joe?

i am REALLY tired....

sorry to lay that at your feet, but geez - when do WE get a break?

peace, kpete

[Uncle Joe]

5. I hear you, kpete.

This Murdoch hacking malignancy seems to have metastasized and even this column seems to underestimate the number of people having been hacked, I read and heard it could be more than 12,000 and I don't believe that's even considering what's been done in the U.S.

There should be a surge of new revelations re: disclosing identities of the hacking victims at least up to 8/8, I believe that's when there will be a court date on this subject.

The scope and scale of this corruption is most depressing but on the other hand I'm viewing it as a necessary and long overdue cleansing, sort of like it being the darkest before the dawn.

Here's some music to cheer you up.:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4fWN6VvgKQ

Peace to you, Unce Joe.

[JDPriestly]

6. Electronic surveillance of US lawyers is permitted under the Patriot

Act as far as I can tell.

I have always pointed this out.

I don't understand why this is permitted considering the longstanding tradition in our law that lawyer-client communications are confidential.

A lawyer is held to his ethical duty of confidentiality.

It seems to me that the government should have to get a very specific court order based on probably cause in order to track or read or listen in on lawyers' communications with their clients.

I am not personally affected by this, but in principle I think that the Patriot Act is far too broad in this respect.