New covert police powers of search and seizure threaten all of us
10/03/2009
The New South Wales Bar Association is gravely troubled about the state governmentâs proposed covert search warrants legislation, which poses a real threat to individual privacy.
"What this proposal means is that police are entitled to enter the premises of all law-abiding citizens under false pretences and without notice. It is difficult to see any justification for the conferral of such extraordinary powers in a liberal democracy", said the president of the Bar Association, Anna Katzmann SC. View the Bar Association's media release�
This morning, Phillip Boulten SC was interviewed on the Mike Carlton Show (2UE) and the Leon Delaney Show (2SM) regarding covert search warrants. Copies of those transcripts are available for viewing in the Bar Library.
**10 March 2009 **
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