Neutral Citation Number: [2015] EWHC 2092 (Admin)
Case No: CO/3665/2014, CO/3667/2014, CO/3794/2014
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
DIVISIONAL COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 17/07/2015
Before :
LORD JUSTICE BEAN
and
MR JUSTICE COLLINS
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THE QUEEN
on the application of
(1) DAVID DAVIS MP
(2) TOM WATSON MP
(3) PETER BRICE
(4) GEOFFREY LEWIS
-vTHE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME
DEPARTMENT
-and OPEN RIGHTS GROUP
PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL
THE LAW SOCIETY OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Claimants
Defendant
Interveners
Dinah Rose QC, Ben Jaffey and Iain Steele (instructed by Liberty) for the Claimants Mr
Davis and Mr Watson
Richard Drabble QC, Ramby de Mello, Azeem Suterwalla and James Dixon (instructed by
Bhatia Best) for the Claimants Mr Brice and Mr Lewis
James Eadie QC, Daniel Beard QC and Sarah Ford (instructed by Government Legal
Department) for the Defendant
Jessica Simor QC and Ravi Mehta (instructed by Deighton Pierce Glynn) for Open Rights
Group and Privacy International, intervening by way of written submissions
Tom Hickman (instructed by Legal Services Department, the Law Society) for The Law
Society of England and Wales, intervening by way of written submissions
Hearing dates : 4-5 June and 9 July 2015
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