Judgment Archive

  • 2 Dec 09: N v The Police
    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 ....

  • 6 Nov 09: Ms. Jenny Paton and others vs. Poole Borough Council
    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.

  • 25 Aug 08: X v Local Authority
    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 ....

  • 14 Aug 08: Gibbon v Rugby Borough Council
    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 ....

  • 5 Feb 08: Frank-Steiner vs. Data Controller SIS
    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.

  • 2 Nov 06: A & Others v The Metropolitan Police Service
    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.

  • 14 Jul 06: C. vs. The Police
    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 ....

  • 28 Feb 05: Mr & Mrs H v The Police Federation of Great Britain
    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 ....

  • 31 Mar 04: B. vs. Security Service
    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. ....

  • 23 Jan 03: The British-Irish Rights Watch and others v Security Service, GCHQ and the SIS
    This complaint related to telephone calls made from the UK to overseas telephones which the Tribunal concluded was in accordance with the law.

  • 23 Jan 03: Case of Kennedy v. the United Kingdom
    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

  • 23 Jan 03: Kennedy v Security Services, GCHQ and The Met
    This Complaint and Human Rights Act Claim related to interception of communications. The hearing considered legal arguments from both sides.

  • 23 Jan 03: Kennedy and Other Ruling
    Short summary of ruling

  • 23 Jan 03: Kennedy and Other Ruling
    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.