Times of London Sued in Hacking Scandal

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By: Alan Cowell and Ravi Somaiya | New York Times

LONDON — As Britain’s hacking scandal shows little sign of easing, a high-profile London lawyer who has been closely involved in pursuing cases involving Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids said on Friday that his firm was suing the upmarket Times of London over e-mail hacking for which the newspaper has apologized.


The lawyer, Mark Lewis told The Associated Press that his firm filed suit against the London newspaper, also part of Mr. Murdoch’s British newspaper outpost, News International, over a case in which a reporter who is no longer with the newspaper hacked into the e-mail account of Richard Horton, a police detective who ran an award-winning blog under the pseudonym NightJack.































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