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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17041915

The Supreme Court has ruled it will decide whether private investigator Glenn Mulcaire must reveal which journalists asked him to hack phones.

The court granted Mulcaire permission to appeal against two court orders that could have forced him to name the reporters.

The two-day hearing will begin on 9 May.

Earlier this month Mulcaire lost his appeal against the orders at the Royal Courts of Justice, but appealed.

He had appealed to try to avoid having to answer questions in civil proceedings that could incriminate him

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...s-corp-inquiry

Senior journalists at the Sun are preparing to launch a legal challenge to the News Corporation unit that disclosed confidential sources to the police, leading to the arrest of nine of the paper's current and former staff this month.

Journalists at the News International red-top have approached the National Union of Journalists with a view to hiring the leading human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson QC, to question the legality of parent company News Corp's management and standards committee.

The NUJ has been contacted by more than a dozen journalists from the Sun with concerns about the protection of sources, it is understood.

The potential legal challenge represents a dramatic new front in the civil war at Rupert Murdoch's Wapping newspaper headquarters on the eve of his arrival in London to deal with the crisis at the Sun