Beyond Contempt by Peter Jukes

Beyond Contempt by Peter Jukes

A factual account of the trial of Rupert Murdoch's British journalists at the News of the World newspaper for phone hacking, corruption of officials and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

'Top court reporting'

– NICK DAVIES, THE GUARDIAN

'Written in a chatty, gossipy style that brings the courtroom drama alive.'

– NIGEL PAULEY, DAILY STAR JOURNALIST

'Remarkable. I feel I now know all the key players and why some defendants were found guilty and some not, despite never having spent a minute at the trial.'

– PROFESSOR STEWART PURVIS, FORMER ITN EDITOR

'Peter Jukes has written a fascinating account of the News Corp hacking trials, which he had live tweeted throughout.'

– RODNEY E LEVER, INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA

'This is perhaps one of the most absorbing books to do with journalism that I have read; for the duration that I was reading it, I did not want to do anything else.

I would read it on the train, then as I got home, as soon as everything had been dealt with, I would be reading. It’s the perfect book for a trainee journalist, or anyone who wants to know more about the trial, and its subsequent impact.'

– MADEMOISELLE WOMEN

'This book, based on the half a million words tweeted during the trial, is a gripping reasoned account of the Hacking Trial. Anyone wishing to become a courtroom lawyer in the 21st Century should read it.'

– ALISTAIR KELMAN, COUNSEL

'This book is that rare beast a ground-breaking volume that's also entertaining and informative... There's a little of Dickens sharp observational eye in his accounts of the David v Goliath battle that took place in Court 12. Naturally, this being the underlings of billionaire Rupert Murdoch versus The Crown, the normal rules were suspended.'

– PADDY FRENCH, PRESS GANG

'Absorbing and highly revealing... What's striking is how the mass of cash Rupert Murdoch threw at the defence disrupted, disturbed and thwarted the prosecution.'

– DAN WADDELL, EX-REDTOP REPORTER

Peter Jukes is a British journalist and screenwriter. His television credits include devising and writing In Deep (subsequently developed with Paul Haggis for the USA network), the first two episodes of the the first series of the Emmy award winning Waking the Dead, BAFTA award winning Sea of Souls, and the first episodes of Inspector Lynley with original storylines. As a journalist he has written regularly for various newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, New Statesman, The Daily Beast, Politico, The New Republic and was nominated for several awards for his coverage of the phone hacking trial in London, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in British history, recounted in his book Beyond Contempt. He is co-author of Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed and director of the Byline Festival. His 2012 book, The Fall of the House of Murdoch, was described by the former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans as “a roaring great read.” His account of living in the modern city, A Shout in the Street (Faber & Faber, 1990), was called “a dream of a book” by John Berger. He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780993040719
ISBN 10	0993040713
Title	Beyond Contempt
Author	Peter Jukes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canbury Press
Year published	2015-02-14
Number of pages	256
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