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Police raid on New Zealand journalist ruled unlawful in case which has implications for the UK

08 January 2016

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"A New Zealand journalist has successfully stopped police viewing his computer records and notepads in a case which could have implications for the UK. Nicky Hagar sued the New Zealand government and police after a raid on his home.

Police targeted him because he was given emails hacked from the computer of blogger Cameron Slater which were used as part of his book Dirty Politics. They revealed how government figures used Slater to damage their opponents.Instead of tackling the issues raised by Hagar, police raided his house and seized his computers and various documents in a bid to uncover the source who had hacked Slater's computer.

In recent years UK police have made widespread use of their powers to identify confidential journalistic sources by: raiding journalists' homes, using production orders to obtain confidential emails from news organisations and secretly obtaining the telecoms data of news organisations and journalists."

See the story: Police raid on New Zealand journalist ruled unlawful in case which has implications for the UK (Press Gazette, link)

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