Sun staff line up human rights challenge to News Corp inquiry team

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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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/15/sun-staff-news-corp-inquiry?newsfeed=true

[Rambis]

1. The Scum

BILLY BRAGG - NEVER BUY THE SUN

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3. An apology for that was published within a day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/oct/17/sun-hillsborough-disaster

[JDPriestly]

2. Interesting. In many cases, the journalists may have a point.

Human rights law would not protect wiretapping, but it might protect information provided by sources other than wiretapping.

Bribery -- an exchange of money for the information might be a different matter too.

This is similar to the issues regarding Assange. Is the person receiving protected information guilty of a crime. Or is it just the person providing the information.