The Law Society Gazette
he Solicitors Regulation Authority is investigating a former Mirror Group in-house solicitor named in the Prince Harry phone hacking judgment, the regulator has revealed.
Marcus Partington was referred to repeatedly in the ruling handed down by Mr Justice Fancourt last month. The judgment stated that Partington ‘would have been aware’ of unlawful information-gathering from 1999 onwards and was aware of phone hacking activities from no later than the end of 2003.
This, the judge found, was as a result of his ‘legalling’ work – checking stories for legal issues before publication.
Fancourt went on to say that Partington had told group legal director and barrister Paul Vickers, who was a board director, so it could not be said that lawyers concealed what was happening from the company.
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