‘Harry Potter’ Author J.K. Rowling to Give Evidence in Phone-Hacking Inquiry


From the Hollywood Reporter:

LONDON – Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant will be among 46 “core participants” who will have the right to give evidence in person at the Judicial inquiry into phone-hacking and media intrusion, Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry said Wednesday.

Rowling, Miller and Grant will be one of a group of celebrities, politicans, sportsmen and members of the public who have been selected to give evidence about their experience of press intrusion, many of whom have been victims of phone-hacking by The News of the World and potentially other newspapers.

The Leveson Inquiry was set up by British Prime Minister David Cameronin the wake of the phone-hacking crisis at Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Its remit is to look at the broader issues of media ethics and practices, including the relationships between newspapers, the police and politicians that have been central in the News International criminal investigation.

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