News Corp and NDS counsel must have known it was going to get ugly, after NDS chief Abe Peled flew out of the country the night before he was due to testify. But did they really have any idea just how upset Judge David Carter was going to get? Continue reading →

In April 2008, the month that James Murdoch agreed secretly to pay Gordon Taylor £700,000 to settle a UK phone hacking claim, Judge David Carter in the District Court of California was asking questions about corporate responsibility—when a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation was accused of corrupt behaviour, how high in the chain of command should executives be called to account? Continue reading →