Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire sues News of the World publisher

Source: The Grauniad

Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking affair, is suing the now defunct tabloid's publisher News International in an attempt to force the company to pay his legal bills.

Mulcaire's action comes after the company, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, announced on 20 July it would stop paying his legal costs with immediate effect.

It emerged earlier this week that News International has paid "approximately £246, 000" to lawyers acting for Mulcaire.

He has issued a high court writ claiming News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that published the News of the World until last month, has a contractual obligation to pay the legal bills he is running up fighting more than a dozen high court cases being brought by public figures. The company received the writ on Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/phone-hacking-glenn-mulcaire