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UPDATE: UK: Submission regarding MI5, MI6 & GCHQ access to lawyer-clients relationships: Guidance submitted to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT): concerning LLP (Legal Professional Privilege) Full-text

07 November 2014

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See the full text: Submission regarding MI5, MI6 & GCHQ access to lawyer-clients relationships: Guidance submitted to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT): concerning LLP (Legal Professional Privilege) Full-text (pdf) in : Case No. IPT/13/132-9/H BETWEEN: (1) ABDEL HAKIM BELHADJ, (2) FATIMA BOUDCHAR, (3) SAMI AL SAADI, (4) KARIMA AIT BAAZIZ, (5) KHADIJA SAADI, (6) MUSTAFA AL SAADI, (7) ANAS AL SAADI, (8) ARWA AL SAADI: Claimants
and (1) SECURITY SERVICE (2) SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (3) GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HEADQUARTERS (4) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (5) THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS: Respondents

Also see: Government forced to release secret policies on surveillance of lawyers (Reprieve, link): "The Government has been forced to release secret policies which show that GCHQ and MI5 have for years advised staff that they may “target the communications of lawyers,” and use legally privileged material “just like any other item of intelligence.” and see: MI5, MI6 and GCHQ 'spied on lawyers' (BBC News, link), and: UK intelligence agencies spying on lawyers in sensitive security cases - Internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents reveal routine interception of legally privileged communications (Guardian, link): "The intelligence services have routinely been intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients in sensitive security cases, according to internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents. The information obtained may even have been exploited unlawfully and used by the agencies in the fighting of court cases in which they themselves are involved, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has been told, resulting in miscarriages of justice. Exchanges between lawyers and their clients enjoy a special protected status under the law."

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