Episode 4: Operation Yurta

Episode 4: Operation Yurta

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Episode 5: Ex Parte v Inter Partes

Released on bail, Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney begin a legal fight to challenge the legality of the warrants. Central to their case is the question of what the judge who granted the warrants was - and wasn’t - told by police.The judgment will be viewed as a landmark ruling o ...  Show more

Episode 6: A Short History of Spying

When the High Court finds the warrants were unlawful, the police investigation comes to an end. But Barry is concerned that he may have been placed under surveillance and he approaches the only court in the UK which can tell him if that’s true.The Investigatory Powers Tribunal ha ...  Show more

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