UK government 'routinely' spies on lawyers | Amnesty International
"This clearly violates an age-old principle of English law set down in
the sixteenth century; that the correspondence between a person and
their lawyer is confidential. It could mean, amazingly, that the
government uses information they have got from snooping on you, against
you, in a case you have brought. That affords the government an unfair
advantage akin to playing poker in a hall of mirrors,” Rachel Logan,
Amnesty International UK’s Legal Advisor
GCHQ is among the UK agencies granted access to confidential privileged communications between lawyers and clients.
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