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UK: Police try to overturn ruling they broke law while monitoring octogenarian - Supreme court hears that Met unit tracking John Catt, 89, did not violate campaigner’s privacy when logging his activities

02 December 2014

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"Police chiefs are seeking to overturn a legal ruling won by an 89-year-old campaigner whose political activities were recorded on a clandestine database."

See the story: Police try to overturn ruling they broke law while monitoring octogenarian - Supreme court hears that Met unit tracking John Catt, 89, did not violate campaigner’s privacy when logging his activities (Guardian, link)

See also: Netpol urges Supreme Court to uphold illegality of protester’s ‘domestic extremist’ record (link), Last March's Court of Appeal judgement against the police's retention of Catt's information (pdf) and: Files on politicians, journalists and peace protestors held by police in "domestic extremist" database (Statewatch database)

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