Condé Nast ordered to pay £10000 after Michael Wolff piece that risked prejudicing phone-hacking trial of Brooks and Andy CoulsonThe publisher of GQ magazine has been fined £10000 after being found in contempt of court over an article that seriously risked prejudicing the phone-hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson.
The article,an “observational piece” headed The Court Without A King” written by US journalist Michael Wolff, implied that Brooks was a “disreputable woman”, and represented an “improper attack” on a defendant during the course of her trial at the conventional Bailey,one of the two presiding judges said.
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Source: theguardian.com