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NLJ this week: Seize & resist when ‘journalistic’ material is involved

20 September 2024
Issue: 8086 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal , Media , Judicial review , Fraud
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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.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cadwalader—Matthew Sperry

Cadwalader—Matthew Sperry

Firm grows private wealth practice with transatlantic hire

Michelmores—Jennifer Morrissey

Michelmores—Jennifer Morrissey

Financial services and securities litigation specialist joins as partner in London

Shakespeare Martineau—David Smithen

Shakespeare Martineau—David Smithen

South West land team bolstered by real estate partner hire in Bristol

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