This led to the arrest of Wallis, his former boss Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and others.
Eight people, including former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former spokesman, are facing a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking.
The court set the trial date for Sept. 9, 2013, during a hearing Wednesday attended by former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News Corp.
It will be a strange feeling for Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to encounter a baying pack of hacks outside their front doors knowing that they have instigated the same tactics on so many others over the years.
Cameron's former director of communications, Andy Coulson, and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Murdoch's News International, were charged Tuesday.
Already, police are reportedly planning to arrest Andy Coulson, who succeeded Brooks as editor, either on similar grounds or because they have evidence that he did, in fact, condone the hacking.
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The working party will be chaired by ECB chief executive David Collier and will include representatives from the Professional Cricketers' Association, an un-named player, Sussex chief executive Dave Brooks, Somerset chairman Andy Nash and Glamorgan chief executive Alan Hamer.
Mr Grant said claims by Mrs Brooks and another former editor, Andy Coulson, that they had been unaware of hacking while they were in charge at the News of the World "makes either him and Rebekah Wade the worst editors in the history of journalism or liars".
Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson is among eight journalists facing charges, as is Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Murdoch's News International.
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