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Mark Lewis - Lawyer for phone hacking victims

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?

23 minutes

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Sat 17 Dec 2011 02:05GMT

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