TOMMY Sheridan's solicitor Aamer Anwar claimed hackers tried to get into his phone before the politician's perjury trial.
The lawyer will ask police today to investigate whether the News Of The World were involved.
Anwar has also instructed a London solicitor to begin court proceedings in a bid to identify the hacker.
Yesterday, Anwar said he was called by Vodafone before Sheridan's trial to warn him that an attempt had been made to access his messages.
Security It is understood the lawyer was the victim of a failed "blagging call" - an attempt to trick his phone company into giving out his security PIN number to a third party.
If successful, the hacker could have listened to Anwar's voicemails.
The alleged incident happened before the start, last October, of Sheridan's trial for comitting perjury during his successful defamation case against the News Of The World.
During the trial, Sheridan called the paper's former editor Andy Coulson as a witness.
When he took the stand Coulson, who quit the paper over the hacking scandal, insisted he was unaware of the phone scam being used during his time in charge.
But he recently quit as Prime Minister David Cameron's chief spin doctor as more evidence of widespread hacking at the paper emerged.
Anwar's lawyer Mark Lewis said his client had drawn up a list of 20 highprofile Scots, including celebrities, politicians and sports stars, who believe their phones have been hacked.
Yesterday, former MP George Galloway claimed he had been offered "substantial sums of money" by the News Of The World after his phone was allegedly hacked.
Galloway is demanding damages from the newspaper after police found evidence that his phone had been tapped.
Galloway told BBC1's Politics Show: "I began a civil action for breach of privacy. I have a court date some months hence. The News Of The World are busily offering me substantial sums of money."
Reports say around 3000 people may have had their phones hacked.
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