Intellegence Services information gathering programmes in USA held to be lawful
Liberty & Ors v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office & Ors [2014] UKIPTrib 13_77-H
The claimants alleged unlawfulness pursuant to ECHR, art 8 of certain assumed activities of the Intelligence Services in relation to information gathering programmes in the US. Held: the activities in question were lawful. Matthew Ryder QC, Edward Craven and Dan Squires were involved in this case.
Disclosure under the Investigatory Powers Tribunals Rules 2000 is correct
Belhaj & Ors v Security Services & Ors IPT/13/132-9H
This was an interim hearing to deal with requests from the claimants for further disclosure from the respondents. The claimants complained about the form of disclosure from the respondents. Held; dismissing the claimants’ application for redacted documents, the Tribunal noted that under the Investigatory Powers Tribunal Rules 2000 there was nothing which proscribed the manner […]