Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial: The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering. Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial airs on BBC News at 3:30 AM, Saturday 27 April. The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial: The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering. Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial airs on BBC News HD at 3:30 AM, Saturday 27 April. The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial: The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering. Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial airs on BBC News at 3:30 AM, Friday 26 April. The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial: The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering. Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial airs on BBC News HD at 3:30 AM, Friday 26 April. The legal battle over allegations of unlawful information gathering
of illicit information. it was exciting. you felt like a spy. i don't know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. but phone hacking was not practised by the mail on sunday or the daily mail. you have just about anybody who's ever appeared - in a tabloid newspaper saying, "give me large wodges- of cash, please." i think it's actually a legal scandal. i it's not the money i'm after. it's to expose their guilt. it's justice.
are caught between a rock and a hard place. you spend £1 million on fighting that case, if you can settle it for £100,000? i'm afraid it's a no—brainer. it is cheaper to settle than to fight for the truth. we're waiting for the one person with the money and the resolve to take this all the way to trial, the person who goes, "i don't care if i risk losing £3 or £4 million on this. "i don't care what they chuck at me "in disclosure or in the courtroom. "i am willing to take that on myself because, "for me, the moral victory is more important "than the financial victory. " good evening. buckingham palace has said that prince harry has begun legal action against the owners of the sun, the now defunct news of the world and the daily mirror in relation to alleged phone hacking.
for all the costs, and that could bankrupt me — quite easily. i fear that many other victims of press misconduct are too afraid to fight for their rights because of aggressive newspaper legal teams and our expensive legal system. that's the key. . .strategy that a lot of these newspapers employ to stop these cases coming to court, where they would be subject to real scrutiny. i think it's important to recognise that there are two separate things. there is a criminal investigation into phone hacking. and there is civil proceedings... ..about phone hacking. the criminal investigation into phone hacking ended years ago. and what you have is now an industry whereby anybody who thinks they've got any kind of excuse is trying to get civil damages. the main newspaper groups
through the heart of this corporation. they very nearly ruined my life. i have certainly seen how they have ruined the lives of others. it's really difficult for me to sit here and talk about this because... ..the whole point of fighting these newspapers is because i was so keen to have my privacy. i feel a sense of duty... ..to expose them as they've exposed us. tv reporter: prince harry and sir elton john have - launched legal action against the publishers of the daily mail. action is being taken against the sun newspaper. legal action against i the mirror group over allegations of phone hacking. who did you hack? be quicker to say who i didn't hack, wouldn't it? it would be easier. celebrities, politicians. i was living in this sort of superhighway
they very nearly ruined my life. i have certainly seen how they have ruined the lives of others. it's really difficult for me to sit here and talk about this because... ..the whole point of fighting these newspapers is because i was so keen to have my privacy. i feel a sense of duty... ..to expose them as they've exposed us. tv reporter: prince harry and sir elton john have - launched legal action against the publishers of the daily mail. action is being taken against the sun newspaper. legal action against i the mirror group over allegations of phone hacking. who did you hack? be quicker to say who i didn't hack, wouldn't it? it would be easier. celebrities, politicians. i was living in this sort of superhighway