King to ramp up legal fight with Fairfax LAWYERS for former Leighton chief executive Wal King are likely to lodge a statement of claim against Fairfax Media in coming days over its extensive coverage of claims that he authorised a bribe in Iraq when he ran the construction giant. And The Australian understands it is now more than one week since Mr King wrote to Fairfax to complain about separate comments by UGL chairman Trevor Rowe, published in The Australian Financial Review on November 8, that Mr King was "out of control" when he ran Leighton.