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Correspondence with Foerster CORRESPONDENCE WITH MORRISON FOERSTER 2014‐16 Part 2 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 23/03/2015 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges, 31/03/2015 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 8/04/2015 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Chair of the Committee of Privileges, 30/09/2015 Letter from the Chair of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 8/10/2015 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Chair of the Committee of Privileges, 19/11/2015 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 23/11/2015 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Chair of the Committee of Privileges, 17/02/2016 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 23/02/2016 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges, 4/03/2016 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 9/03/2016 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges, 16/03/2016 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 16/03/2016 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 23/03/2016 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges, 11/04/2016 Letter from Morrison Foerster to the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges, 14/04/2016 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 30/06/2016 Letter from Morrison Foester to the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges, 13/07/2016 Letter from the Clerk of the Committee of Privileges to Morrison Foerster, 21/07/2016 Committee of Privileges . Tel 020 7219 3259 Fax 020 7219 5952 Email [email protected] • Website www.parliament.uk/privileges From Eve Samson, Clerk of the Committee Morrison Foerster (UK) LLP CityPoint One Ropemaker Street London EC2Y9AW 23 March 2015 Your ref: By post and email Dear Sirs Eleventh Report of Session 2010-2012 from the Culture Media and Sport Committee The matters contained in this letter and enclosure are to be kept in strict confidence. On 4 March 2015, we were made aware of the involvement of one of the inquiry subjects in criminal proceedings being brought against Mr Andy Coulson in Scotland. Upon receipt of this information we wrote forthwith to the relevant authorities to seek further information. This has now been received and was considered by the Committee at its meeting on Wednesday 11 March 2015. Due to the sensitive nature of the information contained therein, and the involvement of the said inquiry subject, we will not disclose this information. In addition, on 6 March 2015, the Committee received a written submission which raised for the first time, a number of detailed arguments. The Committee considered this submission at the meeting on Wednesday 11 March 2015 and decided that in accordance with paragraph 3 of the Resolution of 3 July 2012, the matters raised should be investigated further, including giving consideration to seeking further evidence. ln the light of these two matters, and the forthcoming dissolution of Parliament, the Committee has decided not to Report before the end of this Parliament, and to report this fact and the evidence to the House but without an order for printing. In doing so, this allows the evidence to be referred to 'and considered by the Committee of Privileges as constituted in the next Parliament. All further decisions in relation to this inquiry, will be for that Committee. In the course of the inquiry, Mr Hinton raised the question of the authorisation of the scope of the email review carried out in connection with Clive Goodman's appeal against dismissal. The Committee in the next Parliament may wish to consider this matter further. This Committee accordingly requests that any documents relating to the review, and in particular to the commissioning of that review, are retained by your clients, even if they would otherwise have been destroyed under normal records management policy. On 17 March the Committee of Privileges approved a Special Report, an advance embargoed copy of which is enclosed with this letter. This advance copy is to be regarded as strictly confidential until publication. We draw the provisions in relation to contempt for communication or publication during the embargo to your attention. ~~~, ~~ Eve Samson Clerk of the Committee of Privileges 2 CITYPOINT MORRISO N FOERSTE R (UK) LLP MORRISON I FOERSTER ONE ROPE1\-1AKER STREET NE \\" YORK, S :\" FR .\ N C I SC O , LO S A N G E LES, PALO :\LTO, LONDON EC2Y 91\ W S:\ N DI E G O , \V :\ S HI NGTO N , D . C . .• \ LIMITED Ll :\1311.ITY P:\RT:-SERSHIP UNITED KINGDOM T O KY O , L ON D O'> , flRL"SSE L S, ll E 1.J I 1\ G , S H .'\ 1\ G 11 :\! , II O 1' G K O N G TELEP!·IONE: +44 20 7920 4000 FACSIMILE: +44 20 7496 8500 \XIW\V.MOFO.CO:M 31 March 2015 Our ref: Ms. Eve Samson Clerk of the Committee of Privileges Journal Office House of Commons London SWlAOAA By post and email Dear Madam, Eleventh Report of Session 2010-2012 from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee: "News International and Phone-hacking" We refer to your letter dated 23 March 2015 enclosing the Second Special Report of Session 2014-2015. As a result of the Committee's decision not to Report before the end of this Parliament, please confirm that the newly-constituted Committee in the next Parliament will need to start this inquiry afresh. It must be obvious to the current Committee that it is impossible for the Committee in the next Parliament to simply approve or 'rubber stamp' the provisional adverse findings of the current Committee. Please also confirm the finality of the Committee's acquittal of our client in relation to the issue of the payment of Mr Goodman's legal settlement. There is plainly no proper basis on which this issue could be passed on to the Committee in the next Parliament because the current Committee has already made a final decision communicated to our client that he has been cleared of the charge relating to his evidence concerning the Goodman settlement. Finally, please confirm that we may share the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Judgment dated 3 February 2015 concerning Mr Abramson with legal representatives acting for other Authoris ed and regulated b r the Solicitors Regul ati o n Authority A li s t of P artners of Morrison & Foerster (L:K) LLP, a Delaware Limited Liability Partnership, (registered number 4569482 81011 0811747141) is available at ou r offices. ln-254965 MORRISON I FOERSTER .\ Ll:\IITF.D l.l:\BII.ITY P.\RT~E RSIIIP The Committee of Privileges 31 March 2015 Page Two subjects of this inquiry. We assume that this will not be controversial given that they are also subject to the duty of confidence set out in the Committee's Resolution dated 3 July 2012. Yours faithfully, /' ~ .q?.;\ c;;J {ow{)q , Morrison & Foerstl (UK) LLP ln-254965 Committee of Privileges Tel 020 7219 3259 Fax 020 7219 5952 Email [email protected] Website www.parliament.uk/privileges From Eve Samson, Clerk of the Committee Morrison Foerster (UK) LLP CityPoint One Ropemaker Street London EC2Y 9AW 8 April 2015 Your ref: By post and email Dear Sirs Eleventh Report of Session 2010-2012 from the Culture Media and Sport Committee Thank you for your letter of 31 March 2015. The newly constituted Committee in the next Parliament will have access to the papers of the previous Committee, and will proceed as it sees fit. It will come to its own view on the basis of that evidence, and any further evidence it considers will assist it to reach a conclusion. As the Committee in this Parliament was unable to report, no final decision has been made on any-- of the matters related to the referral. Since Parliament is dissolved, and no committee is currently in existence, I cannot authorise you to share the SDT judgement. amson Clerk oft e Committee of Privileges CITYPOINT i\lORIUSON FOERSTER (UK) LLP MORRISON I FOERSTER ONE ROPEMAKER STREET NEW YORK, SAN FRANCJSCO, LOS ANGEL[;;S, PALO ALTO, LONDON EC2Y9AW SAN DLEGO, WASJIINGTON ~ D . C ~ :\ LI Mn ED LIAllTLITY PARTNERSHIP UNITED KINGDOM TOKYO, LONDON, BRUSSELS, BEJJING, S/-IANGH,\1, HONG KONG TELEPHONE: +44 20 7920 4000 FACSIMILE: +44 20 7496 8500 WWW.MOFO.COM 30 September 2015 Our ref: Rt. Hon. Kevin Barron MP Clerk of the Committee of Privileges Journal Office House of Commons London SWlAOAA By post and email Dear Sir, Eleventh Report of Session 2010-2012 from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee: "News International and Phone-hacking" As you know, we act for Mr. Les Hinton in relation to the Committee's inquiry into the above report. We write to set out our concerns over the further delays to the inquiry as a result of the failure to appoint any new members to the Committee. It has now been three years and four months since "the matter" was referred to the (then) Standards and Privileges Committee by the House. The Committee is yet to report to the House and, as emphasised by Eve Samson in her letter of 8 April 2015, "no final decision has been made on any ofthe matters related to the referral." (Ms. Samson's emphasis.) The extraordinary length of the Committee's inquiry is to be contrasted with the relative speed of the Committee of Standard's investigation into Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind for 'cash-for-access' misconduct.
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