{"id":24438,"date":"2018-01-18T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/18\/phone-hacking-cases-against-murdoch-papers-settled-at-last-minute\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:54:01","slug":"phone-hacking-cases-against-murdoch-papers-settled-at-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=24438","title":{"rendered":"Phone-hacking cases against Murdoch papers settled at last minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confidential settlement of cases against Sun and News of the World raises difficult issues for future hacking cases, judge saysPhone-hacking cases brought by Vic Reeves, Kate Thornton and two others against Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sun and News of the World have been confidentially settled, just as a six-week trial was due to hear allegations of a cover-up by senior executives at the media mogul\u2019s British tabloids.The last-minute deal on Thursday earned both sides a rebuke from Mr Justice Mann, who complained that issues important to another 47 hacking cases in the pipeline had not been determined in a case that would have heard allegations of wrongdoing by James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/jan\/18\/phone-hacking-cases-against-murdoch-papers-settled-at-last-minute\" target=\"_blank\">Phone-hacking cases against Murdoch papers settled at last minute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidential settlement of cases against Sun and News of the World raises difficult issues for future hacking cases, judge saysPhone-hacking cases brought by Vic Reeves, Kate Thornton and two others against Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sun and News of the World have been confidentially settled, just as a six-week trial was due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}