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By Lindsay Fortado and Kit Chellel

July 14, 2011 at 1:17 AM UTC

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July 14, 2011 at 10:15 AM UTC

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The U.K. judicial review into the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. will be led by a former prosecutor best known for the conviction of an English serial killer.

Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday chose Lord Justice Brian Leveson, 62, to head up the independent review. Speaking to Parliament, Cameron said the inquiry will report back within 12 months regarding press regulation and will have the power to question under oath proprietors and managers, such as Murdoch, his son James, and Rebekah Brooks, chief executive officer of News Corp.’s British unit News International. A second part of the inquiry, a probe of wrongdoing by the press and police, may take longer because of criminal proceedings, Cameron said.