Simon Asks about Intrusion Justification

[Ian G Batten]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ross Anderson wrote:
> I think we need to revisit the whole issue of whether illegally
> obtained evidence can be used in court. That may be needed in order
> to remove a big incentive for mission creep

The Home Office could, of course, propose primary legislation or
alternatively work with the judiciary to introduce either laws or
practice implementing the US doctine of the ``the fruit of the poison
tree''.  That they do not, while wishing to extend the powers of
evidence gathering, is significant.

ian