England
Judge orders naming of journalists in hacking scandalPosted Mar 2 2011
Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator, was jailed for six months in 2007 for intercepting phone messages to the British Royal Family. London Metropolitan Police found a notebook containing nearly 3,000 names that could have been possible victims of phone hacking.
News of the World reporter Clive Goodman was also implicated in the scandal and jailed at the time.
On Feb. 25, Mulcaire was ordered by High Court Judge Geoffrey Vos to name all of the journalists involved with the case.
Justice Vos in his ruling said that the victims of the interception have a right to know who was involved with the hacking because Mulcaire had a $160,000 a year contract with the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World paper.
The News of the World maintains that the only journalist involved was Clive Goodman, though they fired a senior executive in mid-December 2010.