The Weekly Law Reports
[1979] 2 WLR 700
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
MALONE
v.
METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONER
[1978 M. No. 3772]
1979 Jan. 22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
29,
30,
31;
Feb. 28
Feb. 28
Sir Robert Megarry V.-C.
Police
— Powers
— Telephone tapping
— Home Secretary's warrant for interception of calls on private telephone
— Claim for declaration that interception unlawful
— Claim based on right of property, privacy, confidentiality and breach of human rights
—
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953) (Cmd. 8969), arts. 8, 13