Sentence examples for intercept evidence from inspiring English sources

Intercept evidence should not be allowed into British terror trials, the government's terrorism reviewer said today.

Urgently review control orders and find a way to allow intercept evidence in court.

The government should focus instead on making it easier to prosecute terrorists by making intercept evidence available in court".

The home affairs committee said it was "ridiculous" that intercept evidence could not be used in court.

The current refusal of the UK government to use intercept evidence would then look even more unwise.

Only one inquest has been delayed because it involved intercept evidence, the disclosure of which ministers still refuse to permit.

As a bonus, if judicial authority were given for telephone and electronic intercepts, evidence thus collected could be used to prosecute terrorists, as happens in the US.

The appeal for the advice to be disclosed was made by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law which submitted a Freedom of Information request to uncover the reasoning behind a 2009 report, entitled 'Intercept as Evidence'.

There was also unease over the fact that British courts, unlike their American counterparts, do not allow the use of electronic intercepts as evidence, voiding for court purposes extensive recordings of telephone conversations in which the plotters discussed their plans.

The Trial Chamber then turned to the task of deciding the admission of these intercepts into evidence.

On 16 December 2003, the Trial Chamber admitted the 245 intercepts into evidence on a prima facie basis and reserved its final ruling with respect to admissibility subject to a determination of the relevance and reliability of the intercepts (Prosecutor v. Milošević 16 December 2003b).