Regina v Owen; Regina v Stephen: CACD 11 Nov 1998

A recorded prisoner’s telephone call from prison was admissible in evidence without the defence having any right to challenge it, where the interceptor established a presumption of consent to the interception because of warnings given to prisoners.

Buxton LJ, Blofield J Tucker QC HHJ
Times 11-Nov-1998, [1999] 2 Cr App R 59, [1998] EWCA Crim 3142, [1999] 1 WLR 949
Bailii
Interception of Communications Act 1985 9
England and Wales
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CitedRegina v P and others HL 19-Dec-2000
Where communications had been intercepted in a foreign country, and the manner of such interceptions had been lawful in that country, the evidence produced was admissible in evidence in a trial in England. An admission of such evidence was not an . .

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