Bugged conversation admissible (1)
01 January 1991
Bugged conversation admissible
artdoc August=1994
The Court of Appeal ruled in May that evidence of private
conversations in a private house, obtained by an electronic
listening device installed without the knowledge or consent of
the owners or occupiers, is admissible evidence against a
defendant in a criminal trial. There is no statutory provision
equivalent to the Interception of Communications Act 1985, which
governs the interception of telephone calls or letters, but the
strong public interest in the detection of crime and in the use
by the police of up-to-date technical devices outweighed, in
serious cases, the right to privacy recognised by Article 8 of
the European Convention on Human Rights. R v Khan, Independent
27.5.94.