Because our clients are deaf, assessing situations in an emergency can be difficult if they don't have a specialist phone.
The jury was told that prosecution and defence both accepted that Goodman and the tabloid's specialist phone hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, had intercepted hundreds of voicemails from royal phones.
"This single phone number will act as a triage service that will put them in touch with a specialist phone or online service that is best suited to their personal circumstances," the statement said.
Through it all the Old Bailey jury heard about the particularly private life of the paper's specialist phone hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, also known, the court has been told, as David Alexander, Paul Williams, John Jenkins, Mr Strawberry and Mr Lemon.
The NoW's specialist phone hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, first targeted Blunkett in January 2004, when he collected phone numbers linked to the home secretary, his two sons and his special adviser, Huw Evans, according to the prosecution.
Rebekah Brooks never asked anybody what the News of the World's specialist phone hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, had been doing under her editorship at the paper, the Old Bailey heard on Wednesday.
