Phonehacking hangs in the balance

The phonehacking scandal which has beseiged Rupert Murdoch's media empire is poised at its most precipitous point. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has surrendered the names of the News International staff who ordered the phonehacking to take place in a letter to law firm Schillings who are representing comedian Steve Coogan. 

The Guardian reports:

[Mulcaire's] solicitor, Sarah Webb, from Payne Hicks Beach, said she could not reveal who the NoW employees were because of "confidentiality issues". Schillings, which is representing Coogan, has agreed not to reveal the names yet, to give Payne Hicks Beach a chance to apply for a court order stopping their release.

So the only thing now protecting the identities of those News International employees who illegaly invaded the lives of innocent people, is the respect others have for confidentiality and the law.

The irony of that should be lost on nobody.

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Comments

[rob]

it's part of the Big Society idea - "Do what we tell you, don't you dare do as we do" syndrome.