Group general counsel and company secretary of the BBC and, at the time of the Inquiry, the BBC's most senior lawyer.
Editor and Writer. At the time of the Inquiry, Linklater was Editor of the Scottish edition of The Times. Gave statement to the Inquiry after an earlier witness suggested he had written an article under pressure from an editor or owner. He confirmed his authorship and made clear the work was his alone. He has been a regular contributor to The Times and is the author of several books including a biography of Jeremy Thorpe.
McLaughlin was Professor of Criminology at the School of Arts and Social Sciences of City, University of London at the time of giving evidence. Together with Dr Greer (later Professor Greer), he submitted extensive academic research on the changing nature of news media/police-chief relations in the wake of phone-hacking, "trial by media" and hostile relations between press and police on issues of race.
