A former senior Metropolitan Police officer has issued judicial review proceedings against the force over newspaper phone-hacking claims. Ex-deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick says it failed to warn him his privacy may have been compromised. Mr Paddick, MP Chris Bryant, and writer Brendan Montague want the courts to rule on how the case was handled.
Brian Paddick
Tamsin Allen, a lawyer representing the three claimants, said: "Our clients have still not been told the whole story about how their names came to be in the papers seized during the phone hacking investigation in 2006 and why they were not warned that their privacy might have been compromised. The Court will now determine whether or not the Metropolitan Police breached its public law and human rights obligations in the way it handled this investigation and its aftermath."
Ms Allen, a partner at law firm Bindmans LLP, said she would shortly announce the names of two other people who would join the proceedings.
