Judicial proceedings. that s all i can tell you, except it was my understanding i better not say it. mr. miler, appointed there by mr. hinton to find out what the hell was going on and that he commission commissioned that inquiry. no, that is my understanding of it. i cannot swear to the accuracy of it. thank you. i am going to appeal for brevity because we ve been going for two hours now. i ll be as brief as i can. to james murdoch, what we d like to know is, i m very familiar with the engineering industry.
The illegal voice mail interceptions. where did you get this advice in the first half of 2008. in 2009, they informed us they decided to settle mr. taylor s claim, based upon the advice received from the company s external legal advisors. was this advice received from. they have done work for us. i don t know precisely which external counsel they engaged on that but i can is the advice, from them or anyone else. no, the advice i had was oral from mr. miler and mr. crone. what verbal advice. as i described it. to settle. and, that outside legal advice had been taken with respect to the quantum of damages that were expected, and their advice was that the case would be lost and their advice was in the absence of any new
No new evidence and there was no reason to open a new investigation and in conjunction with the pcc saying that they had done their review and done their inquiry and there was nothing new there, it was viewed that that was a settled matter. it was only really when new evidence emerged that those three things began to be undermined. in a follow-up can you provide us with the instructions that were given to the law firm, the information the extent of the information that was given to them out of the totality of the information that was available? that sort of detail would help us conclude what i think if there s additional detail required around some of those legal instructions, we will consult and come pack to the chairman with a way to satisfy you with the information that you d like to have. clearly, we spotted last in our report that this review coincided not so much with mr. miler s arrival but with the
Was this advice received from farra and coe, slifrolicitors? they have done work for us. i don t know which external counsel they engaged on that. did you see whether it was from them or anyone else? no, the advice that i had was oral from mr. miler and mr. crohn. and what was the advice. as i described. it simply to settle? and that outside legal advice had been taken with respect to the quantum of damages that were expected. that their advice was that the case would be lost and that their advice was that in the absence of any new evidence, certainly no new evidence was made aware to me, in the absence of any new evidence to this, this was simply a matter that was due to events that came to light in 2007 and before i was there and this was a matter
The advice received from the company s external legal advisors. was this advice received from. they have done work for us. i don t know precisely which external counsel they engaged on that but i can is the advice, from them or anyone else. no, the advice i had was oral from mr. miler and mr. crone. what verbal advice. as i described it. to settle. and, that outside legal advice had been taken with respect to the quantum of damages that were expected, and their advice was that the case would be lost and their advice was in the absence of any new evidence, certainly, no new evidence was made aware to me and, the absence of evidence, it was simply a matter that was to do with events that had come to the light in 2007, in the criminal trial before and before