Regarding Crime Reference Number 5253/08:
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DS Murray claimed that only public authorities are covered by RIPA and as BT are a company RIPA does not apply to them.
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Just in case the attributions are needed over and above what RIPA itself states:
The Home Office have confirmed publicly that anyone can commit an offence under RIPA:
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2. RIPA provides for an offence of unlawful interception which any person, absolutely anyone, is able to commit. It also provides for lawful interception of communications.
Simon Watkin, Home Office, 21st April 2008
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(Indeed it was Simon who proposed this precise wording).
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34...-post4308.html
For examples of this in practice, see the Goodman and Mulcaire case:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007...andpublishing1
and the Stanford case:
http://www.lawdit.co.uk/reading_room...20Stanford.htm