Former News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has been ordered to answer questions about which staffers on the paper may have asked him to bug mobile phones by a High Court judge, the Guardian reports.
Mulcaire was reportedly refusing to answer questions raised as part of a civil breach of privacy action brought by former Max Clifford assistant Nicola Phillips arising from the phone-hacking scandal.
Outgoing Society of Editors president Donald Martin insisted that it was time to “move on” over phone hacking
But with a plethora of parliamentary and police inquiries and civil legal actions in the pipeline, the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal is not going to go away any time soon.
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