Leveson phone-hacking inquiry: JK Rowling among 'core participants'

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Harry Potter, JK Rowling, who became known protecting your privacy is one of a number of public figures who are expected to testify at the judicial inquiry by Lord Justice Leveson in the ethics of hacking phones and media practices.

Rowling is one of 46 celebrities, politicians, athletes, public figures and other members of the public who believe they were victims of media intrusion granted "key player" status survey by Leveson Wednesday.

This means Rowling and other central participants can testify personally or by counsel, in his experience of the alleged involvement of media research, which begins in October in the Royal Courts of Justice.

The author of Harry Potter expressed his dissatisfaction with the press. In May 2008, won a legal battle to ensure the privacy of their children after photographs were published in the Sunday Express of his son as his wheelchair on a street in Edinburgh in a stroller.

others on the list, including Anne Diamond's ex-husband, Mike Hollingsworth, a former nurse was model and TV presenter Abi Titmus, Sheryl Gascoigne and Mark Oaten, the former MP, who has had to withdraw from Liberal Democrat leadership race after tabloid revelations about his sex life.

Parents of murder victim Diane Watson Leveson also in the medium before the list of participants, as well as parents and their teenage sister of Milly Dowler murder the victim, and the parents of Madeleine McCann. The son of the mass murderer Harold Shipman is also on the list.

Christopher Jeffries, who was arrested on suspicion of murder Joanna Yeates in December, but released without charge, were also granted the status of key participants. Subsequently, several newspapers successfully sued for libel.

number of celebrities who have had their phones hacked, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller and Calum Best are among the 46 names on the list of key participants Leveson.

MPs Chris Bryant, Tessa Jowell, Denis MacShane, Simon Hughes, former Deputy Chief Labour Lord Prescott also characteristic, with a handful of sports stars as jockey Kieron Fallon and former footballer Gary Flitcroft Premiership.

Rebekah Brooks, a former executive of News International in chief and publisher of the New World and the Sun, was denied his request to become a key player in it no longer works for the company to Murdoch, but she will be able to testify as a witness. He appointed a lawyer to act on your behalf which will be under the rules of the survey can ask questions. Jonathan Rees, a private detective who was at a stage used by the New World, is also applied to be a key player, arguing that "it could be a major criticism of him" .

• But Rees has also been denied the status of a key player on the ground that it was not significant enough interest for the first module of the survey. This program will focus on the relationship between the press and the public and does not extend only to allegations of phone hacking, but also other behaviors potentially illegal or unethical.

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News International, owner of the newspaper in the center of the phone-hacking scandal, the now defunct World News, The Sunday Times, Times and the Sun, was given the status of the participant as expected, as Guardian News & Media, owner of The Guardian newspaper, which published a series of revelations about hacking phones in the last two years.

editor of the Daily Mail and Associated Newspapers Northern & Shell Richard Desmond, owner of the Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star, will also be key participants.

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