BERLUSCONI TO ATTEND TRIAL

BERLUSCONI TO ATTEND TRIAL

(ANSA) - Rome, November 3 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi will attend every hearing of a trial in which his TV group Mediaset is accused of false accounting in selling film rights, his lawyers said Tuesday.

The trial is one of two involving the premier which were reactivated when the Constitutional Court last month struck down an immunity law passed by the Berlusconi government last year.

The second involves the alleged bribery of British corporate lawyer David Mills to hush up incriminating evidence in two earlier trials.

The first hearing in the Mediaset case has been set for November 16.

The first Mills trial hearing is on November 27.

In announcing Berlusconi's intention to attend the film rights trial, lawyers said hearings would be scheduled to accommodate the premier's duties.