Video: Leveson inquiry: James Murdoch comes under pressure to explain governance failure James Murdoch, 39, struggled to explain why News International's corporate systems failed to pick up on legal risks posed by its papers' methods of finding stories including the now-defunct News of the World, when called to Leveson inquiry today. Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry puts it to Mr Murdoch that "either you were told about the evidence which linked others at NOTW to Mulcaire, and this was a cover-up; or you weren't told and you didn't read your emails properly and there was a failure of governance in the company. I don't think, I don't think that. It was very, very ... I think ... I've been very, very clear on this point. On what I was told at the time, the eagerness ... that these, these people had to settle this case as you've mentioned and I was told sufficient information to authorise them to go and negotiate at a higher level and I was not told sufficient information to turn over a whole bunch of stones I was told had already been turned over.