UK High Court allows police to investigate documents illegally seized from David Miranda
Lawyers for David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, appeared in the High Court in London on Thursday, seeking an injunction to stop access to the material seized from him by British police. ● After hearing submissions from Miranda’s legal representative and those representing the Metropolitan Police (Met) and the UK’s Home Office, judges Lord Justice Beatson and Justice Kenneth Parker granted a limited injunction supposedly preventing the government and police from “inspecting, copying or sharing” the data seized. This, however, was effectively ruled null and void by their judgement that police could examine the data for “national security purposes.” A full hearing on the issue is to take place on August 30.