The High Court examined the law surrounding the seizure of journalistic material following execution of a search warrant, in a recent case
Writing in this week’s NLJ, Jessica Parker, partner at Corker Binning, looks in detail at this area of law, the case and the broader implications of the court’s findings.
Parker writes: ‘The case highlights the challenge faced by those subjected to searches in seeking to protect confidential material that the investigator had no power to seize.’
She notes the case ‘is likely to interest financial crime lawyers as much as their colleagues at the coalface’, given there have been more searches by the Serious Fraud Office in the past six months than in the entire tenure of the previous director.
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