“A family won a landmark ruling today when a council was found to have acted illegally in spying on them for nearly three weeks to discover whether they had lied about living in the catchment area of a top primary school.”
The Guardian, 2nd August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Public authorities asked for confidential communications data on more than 525,000 occasions last year including a 13 per cent increase in requests by town halls.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The proposed power would allow officers from an EU country to demand information on anyone they suspect of an offence, no matter how minor or whether it is even criminal in the UK.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government will review the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), the law that governs state tapping of phone, email and internet use. The law will be looked at as part of a wider review of counter-terrorism laws.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th July 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Home Secretary has announced today that a rapid review of key counter-terrorism and security powers is underway. The review will look at what counter-terrorism powers and measures could be rolled back in order to restore the balance of civil liberties and counter-terrorism powers.”
Home Office, 13th July 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The government is to review key counter-terrorism and security powers including the 28-day limit on detaining terrorist suspects without charge.”
BBC News, 13th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Councils spied on dog walkers suspected of not clearing up after their pets in a string of abuses of their covert surveillance rights, a report published today said.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a claim that the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) violates the human right to a private life. The UK’s rules and safeguards on covert surveillance are proportionate, said the court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th May 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“An ‘eye in the sky’ arrest of a teenager fleeing from a stolen car using a surveillance drone could land police in court after it emerged it did not have permission to be in the air.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A record rise in the number of complaints against MI5 and other bodies authorised to spy on the public is being investigated by judges appointed to oversee the use of surveillance powers in Britain.”
The Independent, 6th January 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Judges rule battle to publish book must be pursued in secretive investigatory powers tribunal.”
The Guardian, 9th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
R (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service [2009] UKSC 12; [2009] WLR (D) 356
“Jurisdiction to hear a claim against the intelligence services for a violation of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by art 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was granted exclusively to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”) by s 65(2)(a) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Therefore the High Court had no jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review brought by a former member of the Security Service in respect of a refusal of permission to publish a book about his work with the service.”
WLR Daily, 9th December 2009
Source; www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Legislation for a £2bn Home Office surveillance project to track details of everybody’s email, mobile phone, text and internet use has been put on hold after a consultation raised concerns over its technical feasibility, costs and privacy safeguards.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The level of authorisation required by local authorities to sign off investigatory techniques will be raised to prevent them being used for trivial matters.”
Home Office, 4th November 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A woman who says she was spied on by her local authority to find out whether she lived in the catchment area of a school is starting a legal challenge.”
BBC News, 5th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The agency responsible for tracing absent parents is to be given access to phone and email records for the first time, under Home Office rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Councils are to have their powers to snoop on the public curbed under government plans aimed at addressing alarm at the expansion of the surveillance state.”
The Times, 4th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The 2005 spotter card, published by the Guardian this week, contains a photograph of Martin Hogbin, who was national co-ordinator for the Campaign against the Arms Trade. He was later accused of supplying information to a company linked to BAE’s security department, but denied the allegation.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It may not have the ring of a historic legal battle. But the case of A v B, which opened at the new supreme court today, has a significance that goes way beyond the banal soubriquets of the two sides.”
The Guardian, 20th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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