Court news

Rebekah Brooks, represented by solicitors Kingsley Napley, is free to pursue new career opportunities, after been cleared of all charges in the News International phone-hacking case in June this year.

The Guardian this morning, on the case against six Sun and former Sun journalists accused of making corrupt payments - charges they deny....

Three million emails at News International are missing after Rebekah Brooks changed the company’s email deletion policy, a jury heard.

Brooks ordered the change in June 2010, which resulted in a large quantity of emails being deleted, including those “covering her entire period as editor of the Sun”, Kingston crown court was told.

Further into the report...

Earlier, the jury was told that one journalist had used the phrase “senior police source” to dress up stories and aggrandise himself in the eyes of his bosses and readers. Jamie Pyatt, 51, told police he had never paid police officers and that the phrase “senior police source” was just a euphemism.

In a police interview made under caution and read to the court, Pyatt, the Sun’s Thames Valley reporter for 25 years, told officers: “Everybody uses it to make it look like they have got somebody on the inside track. “We are trying to make ourselves look as if we are so inside the story so the reader thinks, ‘Oh he’s done well’. The phrase was to ‘dress it up’, to make [the story] look a lot stronger than what you have got.”

Asked by police to describe the term “police contact”, Pyatt said it was a “very, very wide” term, and could apply to the girlfriend or wife of a police officer. It was a “catch-all phrase” used for “bigging yourself up a little bit” and also helped to “get your expenses through”, he said.

Today former News of the World journalist, so-called "fake sheikh" Mahzer Mahmood goes to court, represented by Kingsley Napley, in a bid to prevent Panorama, already delayed from Monday, revealing what he really looks like, or his whereabouts.