UK: First details of Government’s secret lawyer-client spying policies revealed

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"Cori Crider, Reprieve strategic director and a lawyer for the Belhaj and Saadi families, said: “MI6 helped kidnap my clients and 'rendered' them to Gaddafi's dungeons - but the security services' misdeeds didn't stop there. We now know that each security service has at least a policy on their interception of privileged lawyer-client conversations – policies they claim are ‘too secret’ to disclose."

See the full article: First details of Government’s secret lawyer-client spying policies revealed (Reprieve, link)

And see: Legal and policy regime (pdf)

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