References: Unreported 23 April 2002
Coram: Astill J
Woolwich Crown Court. The court was asked to rule on the admissibility of evidence of with telephone calls recorded by external microphones.
Held: The offence under section 1 of the 2002 Act is committed by intercepting a transmission as it is carried in the system and that the system begins at point A, with the start of the transmission of electrical or electromagnetic energy into which the sound waves of the speaker have been converted, and ends at point B, when the energy ceases on being converted into sound waves by the receiver.
Statutes: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 1
This case is cited by:
- Cited – Edmondson and Others -v- Regina CACD (Bailii, [2013] EWCA Crim 1026, [2013] WLR(D) 262, (2013) 177 JP 513, [2014] 1 WLR 1119, [2013] 4 All ER 999, [2013] 2 Cr App R 32, [2013] 3 CMLR 51, WLRD)
The defendants appealed against convictions for conspiracy to intercept of telephone voicemail messages whilst employed in various positions in newspapers. The issue boiled down to when the ‘course of transmission’ of a voicemail message ended, that . .