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In Defence of Juvenile Covert Human Intelligence Sources: demythologising recent reports on the use of “child spies”

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...

Faustian pacts (or making deals with the devil): trying to make sense of the sentencing of “super grass” Gary Haggarty

Introduction The response in England and Wales to the sentencing of Gary Haggarty, a loyalist terrorist, who was facing over two hundred charges, including five of murder was somewhat and characteristically muted. Haggarty, who admitted the offences, was sentenced to...

Negligent handling of sensitive material, duty of care and public policy remedies

In CLG and others v Chief Constable of Merseyside [2015] EWCA Civ 836 the Court of Appeal considered the case of CLG and his family that arose out of the disclosure of their address to defendants in criminal proceedings that was known – because of threats to their...

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