News International has estimated that it will incur at least £7.5 million in legal costs on internal document searches relating to civil damages claims.
The publisher revealed that it had already spent £4.5 million on disclosure searches of databases for emails and internally archived documents as it works with consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
At the High Court hearing which took place on October 1, it was reported that each term searched in the internal communications archive costs between £5,000 and £10,000.
Dinah Rose, News International’s council, said that these costs were being driven up by the lawyers of phone hacking victims as they seek to disclose more information for their own interests and not those of the client.
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