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27 May 2022
Issue: 7980 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal
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NLJ this week: Crime, privacy, extradition

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Writing in this week’s NLJ, David Walbank QC looks at ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’, an issue ‘of perennial concern to those who find themselves under criminal investigation but wish to avoid a media circus in the full glare of publicity’

It was recently the subject of a Supreme Court judgment. Walbank, of Red Lion Chambers, looks at the case and its impact.

He also covers the extradition case concerning Dr Michael Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, ‘which is just the latest instalment in the long-running litigation arising from the controversial $11bn takeover of Autonomy Corporation plc by Hewlett Packard.

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