He was testifying before an independent British inquiry into journalistic ethics prompted by phone hacking at the defunct News of the World, once the flagship British Sunday tabloid of News Corp.
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The operation is running alongside Operation Weeting, the Met's phone-hacking inquiry, and is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
It could be argued this mini war led us down the path to the Leveson Inquiry (set up to investigate phone hacking of British celebrities by News International) far quicker than we would have got there without it.
The judge-led Leveson Inquiry, set up by British Prime Minister David Cameron after the phone hacking scandal at Murdoch's News of the World newspaper last summer, is a wide-ranging investigation examining the relationship between the media and politicians.
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James Murdoch insisted before the Leveson Inquiry Tuesday that he knew little about the scale of phone hacking by people working for the News of the World, as he continued his fight to limit the damage the scandal does to him and his family's media empire.
Mr Brown also suggested he considered launching an inquiry into alleged phone hacking in early 2010 but was advised against it by Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service Sir Gus O'Donnell, and decided against the move.
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The Leveson Inquiry was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron in July 2011 amid new revelations of phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World.
It will be led by senior judge Lord Justice Leveson and will investigate press ethics and review the first police inquiry on phone hacking, and the extent of wrongdoing in the press and the police.
The Leveson Inquiry, which was held at the Royal Courts of Justice, was prompted by the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
Harding won plaudits for The Times' robust coverage of the phone hacking scandal but had to apologise to the Leveson inquiry over the alleged hacking of emails by one of his own journalists.
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