Courts and bug product

[Nicholas Bohm]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <47B43105.3040803@ernest.net>, Nicholas Bohm 
> <nbohm@ernest.net> writes
>>>> Surely you just provide them with the boring tapes, and let them 
>>>> listen and transcribe it themselves.
>>>  The obvious objection to that is ``the prosecution have exotic GCHQ 
>>> technology to establish what is being said from these murky 
>>> recordings you've given us, we don't''.
>>
>> Hand over a second set as cleaned up - "equality of arms" under ECHR 
>> Art 6 fair trial.
> 
> But if the prosecution transcribes the tapes, which they might well want 
> to do so the court knows what it is that they are listening to, then 
> shouldn't they have to give a copy of the transcript to the defence 
> under similar considerations?

Yes.  Do you see a difficulty there?

Nicholas
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