Quite honestly, there was plenty of evidence Friday morning before the SEC got involved of the need to create new rules of the road and the desire by the American people to see those put into law.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

And he accused Murdoch's son and heir apparent James of "breathtaking arrogance" and a desire to gut British rules on the impartiality of the media.

CNN: Gordon Brown lashes out at Rupert Murdoch, son and tabloid

Charlotte Powell, a London-based barrister and chair of the Extradition Lawyers' Association, notes that the desire to harmonise procedural rules has outstripped the harmonisation of substantive elements.

ECONOMIST: Extradition