This Ruling found that there was an interference with privacy contrary to Article 8 in respect of the use of directed surveillance by using existing public CCTV. The decision to authorise surveillance had taken place after the Crown Prosecution ....
Commonly known as the ‘Poole’ judgment, the ruling details the Tribunal’s finding that it was not necessary nor proportionate for Poole Borough Council to undertake surveillance on a family in relation to school catchment areas.
The Tribunal examined whether a council’s use of covert CCTV trained on a communal area to detect persistent dog fouling constituted directed surveillance against an individual for which an authorisation under RIPA should have been obtained. It ....
The Tribunal made a determination in favour of this Complainant having found that the Respondent had carried out unauthorised surveillance on the Complainant’s home property by walking onto his shared driveway during the course of ongoing ....
This unusual case refers to the Complainant wishing to know if his uncle by marriage, deceased in 1963, had worked for the SIS in World War 2. The Tribunal ruled that the Neither Confirm nor Deny policy applied in this case.
The Tribunal examined whether alleged interception could have been made lawful by authorisation under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act or the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) Regulations 2000.
This ruling relates to an open hearing held to determine whether the Tribunal had jurisdiction under RIPA to determine a claim made by a retired police officer against his former police force. The claim was for unlawful covert surveillance in breach ....
The Tribunal found that a police force’s use of covert surveillance against a police officer breached his Article 8 rights as it had no lawful authority for the surveillance activities it undertook (but its decision is overtaken by C v The Police ....
The ruling refers to an oral hearing held by the Tribunal on two preliminary issues of law, with regards to alleged conduct by the Security Service which is alleged to have been incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. ....
Mr Kennedy took his case to the ECHR which subsequently led to confirmation in Strasbourg that IPT procedures did not violate the right to a fair trial
A defining ruling in the early history of the IPT, which set out in detail the jurisdiction, powers, procedure, national security context and the public interest.
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