Doormat argument about Voicemail dismissed by Court of Appeal

[Ian Batten]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/28/rebekah-brooks-andy-coulson-phone-hacking

> They argued that the words used in RIPA "do not extend to cover voicemail messages once they have been accessed by the intended recipient".
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> In their judgment, the three judges ruled: "Contrary to the legal submission on behalf of the appellants, the resulting situation is not lacking in legal certainty".

That pretty much puts that argument to bed, I would have thought, and presumably with it the various discussions about at which point in the chain of delivery an email message may or may not be intercepted.

ian