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UK: Secret hearings could allow police to seize journalists' notes if bill passes - Requests for notebooks and files must currently be made in open court – but clause in deregulation bill could change that

01 February 2014

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"The seizure of journalists' notebooks, photographs and digital files could be conducted in secret hearings, owing to a little-publicised clause in a government bill aimed at cutting red tape, media organisations have warned."

See the article: Secret hearings could allow police to seize journalists' notes if bill passes - Requests for notebooks and files must currently be made in open court – but clause in deregulation bill could change that (Guardian, link)

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