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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Listening to Criminals
Description: In this episode, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC examine the powerful  arguments for using telephone intercept evidence in UK criminal trials. Why are the security services so opposed to a reform that would obviously give a major boost to convicting terrorists and serious criminals, and why have successive governments failed to overcome this opposition? For context, Ken and Tim look at the 2020 joint French/Dutch police operation which led to the demise of  EncroChat (the so-called âWhatsApp for professional criminalsâ) and  the many successful prosecutions that followed in the UK a...