17-12-2015, 16:30
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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015...ukhpmg00000001
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The Sun has used the "hated" Human Rights Act, which it wants to see abolished, to win a legal case against the police for intercepting the phone records of its journalists.
The Metropolitan Police breached the journalists' human rights when it seized the data to identify the source of information about Plebgate, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled on Thursday.
It agreed with the tabloid that this was a breach of protection of freedom of expression, guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which is enforceable before UK courts thanks to the Human Rights Act (HRA).
The paper announced it was going to the tribunal in October 2014, telling HuffPost UK it would rely on the HRA, just after it splashed on its demand that the "hated" law be axed.
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