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Going 'below the waterline': the paradoxical regulation of secret surveillance in the UK

Keenan, Bernard (2015) Going 'below the waterline': the paradoxical regulation of secret surveillance in the UK. LSE Law Policy Briefing Series (9). London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

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Abstract

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal recently found that government surveillance was unlawful, marking the first time that the secretive court has ever ruled against the UK’s Intelligence Services. Yet the Tribunal also held that the unlawful situation had been remedied by the Tribunal’s decision; a paradoxical and unprecedented result that says much about the difficulties of effectively regulating secret activity

Item Type: Monograph (Report)
Official URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author
Divisions: Law
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
K Law > KD England and Wales
K Law > KD England and Wales > KDC Scotland
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2015 10:15
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 22:25
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/64056

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