The WLR Daily case summaries
[2013] WLR (D) 49
Tribunal— Statutory— Investigatory Powers Tribunal— Claims in tort and breach of human rights for alleged personal injuries caused by conduct of undercover police officers over number of years— — Conduct including intimate sexual relationships instigated by officers— — Defendants applying for claims to be struck out— — Whether intimate sexual relationships conduct taking place in “challengeable circumstances”— — Whether conduct outside scope of any authorisation— — Whether Investigatory Powers Tribunal having exclusive jurisdiction to hear claims— — Whether High court should decline jurisdiction— — Human Rights Act 1998 Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 8— — Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, ss 26, 65