Rolled up application for permission to apply for judicial review of whether the procedure set out in the Operational Handbook of the Serious Fraud Office for dealing with material potentially subject to legal professional privilege embedded in electronic devices that have been seized using statutory powers, or produced in response to a notice, is lawful.
Held: The claim failed. The defendant’s use of in-house experts to isolate material potentially subject to Legal Professional Privilege was lawful.
Burnett LJ, Irwin J
[2016] EWHC 102 (Admin), [2016] WLR(D) 42
Bailii, WLRD
England and Wales
Criminal Practice, Legal Professions
Updated: 09 January 2022; Ref: scu.559357