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Mark Lewis - Lawyer for phone hacking victims

15/12/2011 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Mark Lewis - Lawyer for phone hacking victims

The lawyer representing many of the victims of alleged phone hacking talks to Tim Franks.

Mark Lewis - the lawyer for many of those who say they're victims of phone hacking - talks to Tim Franks. Is there a danger that - in the end - a free and vibrant British press could be muzzled?

The British press is in a state of convulsion.  A huge, government-commissioned enquiry into newspaper standards is underway.  

The reason?  Allegations about phone-hacking.  And one of those at the centre of the maelstrom is Mark Lewis - the lawyer for many of those who say they're victims of phone hacking - including the family of a murdered school girl.  

Mark Lewis says that he too has felt the wrath of the newspapers.  

But is there a danger that - in the end - a free and vibrant British press could be muzzled?

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