Malone v Metropolitan Police Comr (No 2)

Hearings

England & Wales

28 Feb 1979 [1979] EWHC 2 (Ch); [1979] Ch 344; [1979] 2 WLR 700; [1979] 2 All ER 620; 69 Cr App R 168, Ch D (Megarry J)

See also

Malone v United Kingdom

Malone v Metropolitan Police Comr

Subject Matter

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

[1979] EWHC 2 (Ch); [1979] Ch 344; [1979] 2 WLR 700; [1979] 2 All ER 620; 69 Cr App R 168, Ch D

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