Mediagazer: Times lawyer recklessly, rather than knowingly, misled High Court over Nightjack email hacking (Press Gazette)

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Times lawyer recklessly, rather than knowingly, misled High Court over Nightjack email hacking — The High Court has ruled that a former lawyer for The Times recklessly rather than knowingly allowed the court to be misled in the Nightjack case. — In doing so it partially upheld the appeal …

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