From The Guardian:
The Law Society has...suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been intercepted with the intention of influencing court cases.
Graham Shear, of Berwin Leighton Paisner whose clients include Robbie Williams and Jude Law, and who recently lodged a claim against the News of the World for damages from breach of privacy, said this:
"In January this year I was contacted by senior officers in Operation Weeting [the Metropolitan police inquiry into phone hacking]," Shear said. "They told me that, contrary to what had been said previously, a number of my clients were referred to in documents from [Glenn] Mulcaire's file. My name was among them."
According to Shear, any intercepted messages would constitute a breach of confidential relationship with clients.
The media lawyer Mark Stephens expressed similar anxieties. "I asked [Scotland Yard] if I'd been hacked - they came back to me in 90 minutes and said yes," he told Channel 4 News. "It confirmed my worst suspicions, that I was in Mulcaire's notebook..."
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Mark Lewis, the solicitor who represented Gordon Taylor in the first settlement with the News of the World for phone hacking, may also have had his voicemails illegally accessed.
Here from the article, is a quote from Des Hudson, the Law Society chief executive:
"Hacking into solicitors' phones would be very serious indeed, and we urge the police to carry out a full investigation. If hacking was carried out with the intention of undermining court action, it might well constitute an attempt to pervert the course of justice, which is a serious criminal offence.
"It is a shocking breach of the privacy of both solicitors and their clients. I will also be writing to Lord Justice Leveson [the judge leading the phone-hacking inquiry] asking him to investigate these allegations."
full article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
The article adds that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has started investigating the role of other, unspecified lawyers as regards the hacking scandal.
The authority's chief executive, Antony Townsend said his thorough investigation would be using the powers they have under the Solicitors Act 1974.
It would probably be easier at this point to make a tally of who Murdoch WASN'T hacking.
UPDATE 1:
Nick Davies, the heroic UK reporter who pursued the hacking allegations for years and broke the Millie Dowler element of the scandal, just landed a book deal for the story.
http://www.salon.com/...
It's scheduled for a fall 2012 release and Davies says it will contain new revelations!
UPDATE 2:
This might keep Rupert up at night:
From wlcentral.org:
A new website Murdoch Leaks: www.murdochleaks.org has been setup recently and is accepting information on criminality occurring at Murdoch publications.
http://www.murdochleaks.org/
UPDATE 3:
From the BBC:
It is coming out today that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK equivalent of Secretary of the Treasury - the position is considered one of the four Great Offices of State and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British politics after the Prime Minister)...has met with top Murdoch executives 16 times since last may - that's more than once a month.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...