i certainly get that all over the world. these are enterprises and sales and advertising figures and personnel numbers and all of those things are relevant. managers look at those. we understand from questions that have been answered already that when it comes to legal issues, the settlement of claims, that that s taken outside from the day-to-day management of the newspaper. that s right, isn t it? each group of companies or titles would have their own legal executives who will deal with things like libel and other things, will try to check something doesn t go into the paper that s going to be wrong. sometimes that s right, sometimes it s wrong. but each has its own legal resource and the managing editor s office is very involved in those things as well as the counsel s office in the newspapers. so the editor of news of the
could be expected to pay, which in damages terms was quarter of a million pounds plus expenses and litigation costs was expected to be between 500,000 and a million pounds is my recollection of it. and i think that chronology is important. i think afterwards you would have obviously had maybe different information, but it wasn t afterwards, it was before. you have since said that when you approved the taylor settlement, it did not actually have all the facts. what do you know now that you did not know then? as i ve testified, mr. sanders, and respectfully, mr. chairman, the key facts, the key evidence that came to light at the end of 2010 as the lengthy due process of the civil litigations involving these matters took their course, it was those it was that process that unearthed the key evidence there. it was really only after that even that the police that any said they should restart the investigation. as soon as we had that new
proceedings. here we are back in session. sorry for the interruption richard. and my producer is saying who just apologized? the committee chairman just said to the people in the crowd the mps and rupert murdoch and the like that he s sorry he apologizes for that behavior. when discussing your initial appearance that it took guts for you to show up today. i think it shows immense guts mr. rupert murdoch for you to continue answering questions now under sitcircumstances and i thank you for it. my questions are just as tough as they would have been had that unfortunate incident not have occurred. mr. james murdoch if i could take you back briefly before we were so rudely interrupted to the question between the disparity of the settlements. could you tell me whether the taylor settlement involved a confidentiality clause that was not present in the settlement for the lesser amount of money? i can tell you that the
planning to serve on you. do you know what sorts of allegations that they were making? we can only imagine that they were saying such and such a person knew, such and such a person knew. have you satisfied yourself about what allegations they were making? i think many of these individuals you mentioned are currently subject to criminal investigation. some have been arrested recently. an these are important matters for the police now. i do think it s important that i don t stray into or am not led into commenting specifically about individuals or allegations made in the past. the question is whether you satisfied yourself as to what clive goodman and glenn mulkhair were alleging in discussions and negotiations that led up to the settlement, if they brought industrial tribunal proceedings against you. that was the question. have you satisfied yourself about what they were alleging? as to glenn, i m not aware of allegations at the time and other things.
have obviously had maybe different information, but it wasn t afterwards, it was before. you have since said that when you approved the taylor settlement, it did not actually have all the facts. what do you know now that you did not know then? as i ve testified, mr. sanders, and respectfully, mr. chairman, the key facts, the key evidence that came to light at the end of 2010 as the lengthy due process of the civil litigations involving these matters took their course, it was those it was that process that unearthed the key evidence there. it was really only after that even that the police that any said they should restart the investigation. as soon as we had that new information at the end of 2010, which indicated to us that there was a wider involvement, we acted on it immediately. tom crohn said last week he did not know why he left news group newspapers. can you clarify why he was asked to leave after 26 years of