Chris Bryant MP, Brian Paddick and Brendan Montague today issued judicial review proceedings against the Metropolitan Police. They claim that the police failed to conduct an effective investigation and breached an obligation to warn them that they were or might have been victims of Glen Mulcaire and Clive Goodman’s unlawful invasions of privacy.

Tamsin Allen, a partner at Bindmans LLP who represents the 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.”

We expect being in a position shortly to announce the names of at least two others in a similar position who will join these proceedings in due course.”

To view the press coverage, please click on the links below:

• Focus: Media Law: Privacy on parade, The Lawyer, 20 September 2010
• Phone-hacking scandal: Sienna Miller set to join legal action, The Guardian,  14 September 2010
• Brian Paddick and Chris Bryant launch legal action against police, Journalism.co.uk, 14 September 2010
• Police Sued Over Probe of Murdoch Newspaper Hacking, the San Francisco Chronicle, 14 September 2010
• Bindmans scoops NoW phone hacking mandate, The Lawyer, 13 September 2010
• Newspaper phone hacking row grows, The Financial Times, 13 September 2010
• Brian Paddick launches legal action on phone hacking, BBC News, 13 September 2010