GREEK SUPREME COURT

The hacking of a party leader's phone concerns all Greek citizens, who demand private data protection, and may have been the target of similar violations.

Yet there are times when the judiciary is obliged to swiftly adjudicate cases that have rocked public opinion and concern the public interest.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis - whose brother-in-law and conservative MP Pavlos Bakoyannis was murdered by N17 in September, 1989 – said yesterday that he will respect and not comment on any ruling by the high court but that if he comes to power he will change the law