"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
“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)