Matrix Chambers and Atkins Thomson Solicitors have been instructed to represent the latest senior UK politician to bring a legal claim against News International in the phone-hacking saga.

Atkins media partner Mark Thomson and Matrix Chambers’ Hugh Tomlinson QC are representing deputy Liberal Democrat leader Simon Hughes, who brought the case against News Group Newspapers and former News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire in the High Court earlier this week (9 August).