The claimant complained of the use by the courts of evidence obtained by covert listening devices. In 1996, the chief constable had given authorisations to use a covert listening device in the applicant’s home. It had been in accordance with guidelines, but the guidelines were not legally binding or publicly available.
Held: The system in place at the time failed properly to protect the applicant. The recordings had not been obtained in accordance with law. The applicant’s human rights had been infringed.
Citations:
30034/04, [2006] ECHR 632, Times 21-Jul-2006, [2006] ECHR 632, [2010] ECHR 1863
Links:
Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights
Jurisdiction:
Human Rights
Cited by:
Cited – Amwell View School v Dogherty EAT 15-Sep-2006
amwell_dogherty
The claimant had secretly recorded the disciplinary hearings and also the deliberations of the disciplinary panel after their retirement. The tribunal had at a case management hearing admitted the recordings as evidence, and the defendant appealed, . .
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Human Rights, Criminal Practice
Updated: 29 September 2022; Ref: scu.243915