MediaGuardian: Clifford drops phone hacking case following £1m deal
March 10th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Legal, Press freedom and ethics
News International is to pay out around £1 million in legal costs and personal payments in the latest phone hacking case, the Guardian reports. Publicist Max Clifford will now drop his legal action concerning the alleged interception of his voicemail.
The settlement means that there will now be no disclosure of court-ordered evidence which threatened to expose the involvement of the newspaper’s journalists in a range of illegal information-gathering by private investigators.
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