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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Some interesting comments by Harbottle & Lewis LLP – a law firm retained by News of the World group to do some limited research concerning the firing of Goodman.
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| Deep Throat in London, UK |
Deep Throat, back from vacation after the federal election earlier this year, found the comments in the website ofthe UK Parliamentary Committee investigating hacking by NOW journalists.
The law firm of Harbottle & Lewis LLP responded to the Culture Media and Sport Committee and the Home Affairs Committee – click here for their response.
Here's the snippets that Deep Throat found rather interesting, they deal with the nature of the Firm's retainer (which was far narrower than the one Rupert Murdoch told the Committee had been undertaken), the Firm's comments on what it did, the Firm's reaction to Murdoch's statement to the Committee that the Firm had been asked to "find out what the hell was going on", and the Firm's comments on the costs of the work they did compared to the costs billed by other law firms for other work done for NOW.
Very interesting bits of history in the making!
The problem for Murdoch is that the prominent law firm has contradicted a significant statement made by Murdoch to the Parliamentary Committee. Deep Throat will check what Murdoch says when he is called back before the Committee and questioned about the two versions of the Firm's retainer, and let readers know.
Here they are. First, the retainer of the Firm:
The Firm's comments on the "clean bill of health" Murdoch says he asked for:
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