Introduction On 31 January 2019, the Home Secretary announcedhis plan to introduce a further category of civil preventative order. Liberty describes the proliferation of these orders as a trend that “dangerously blurs the divide between the criminal and civil law”....
During a six-month period this year, an estimated 15 million people were caught by CCTV images at Manchester’s iconic shopping precinct, the Trafford Centre. Anyone who has visited the centre will readily see the obligatory notices warning that the use of CCTV was in...
On 12 July 2018, the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Select Committee (the Select Committee) published a report on proposed Investigatory Powers Orders laid under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA 2000). One of the proposed Orders included the...
The decision of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in the case of Davies v British Transport Police (dated 30 April and 10 July 2018) attracted an almost sensational level of commentary on social media yesterday, 11 July 2018. At first glance it is easy to see...
Introduction The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) was established under s. 65 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). It is the only appropriate tribunal for the purposes of section 7 of Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) in relation to, insofar as...
[The subject of this blog forms the basis of a paper due to be published later this year. As a result it focuses on a discrete issue touching on the policy of Neither Confirm Nor Deny (NCND) in the context of public inquiries.] The Pitchford Inquiry into Undercover...
