During the investigation in 2012, called Operation Alice, into what became known as “Plebgate”, the Metropolitan Police Service obtained a total of four authorisations for communications data targeting journalists working for The Sun newspaper for the purposes of...
The case of Caroline Lucas and others v Security Service and others [2015] UKIPTrib 14_79-CH in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal considered as a preliminary issue the status, meaning and effect of what is known as the Wilson Doctrine. The Doctrine originates in the...
The Court of Appeal in McGartland v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 686 has recently considered procedural issues arising out of a civil claim brought by the well-known informant Martin “Marty” McGartland against the Security Service for...
“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government” Jeremy Bentham Mark Kennedy, the undercover police officer who infiltrated environmental protest groups in the East Midlands almost certainly participated in crime...
