Defendants already at the Crown Court challenged the use of this data in criminal proceedings, arguing that it amounted to ‘intercept...

Messages exchanged through the EncroChat messaging app between handsets were designed to be end-to-end encrypted. In effect, the app...

Six defendants including a senior manager and two drivers of a road haulage business have been imprisoned on Friday 6 January 2023 of...

Malcolm Floyd, of Shepperton, Surrey, admitted conspiring to supply a controlled drug of Class A (cocaine) and conspiring to supply a...

Six men have been jailed over a £30million money laundering scam which saw dirty money passed through a haulage firm. The Regional...

Malcolm Floyd, Glen Hewes and Cassandra Potter were all arrested after encrypted global communication service, Encrochat, was taken down...

The Berlin Regional Court said it did not want to follow the line of argument of the Federal Court of Justice that “unspecified...

The Berlin Regional Court argued in its verdict, dated 19 October 2022, that the hacking operation against EncroChat, known by the French...

Germany’s BKA began investigating EncroChat encrypted phones after discovering organised criminals were using the phones in Germany in...

A judge at the Landgericht Berlin Regional Court made the referral to the CJEU after hearing testimony from investigators and senior...

Berlin’s Regional Court has asked the European Court of Justice to answer questions about whether the use of hacked EncroChat phone...

The UK’s NCA has alleged that the sole use of EncroChat was to coordinate and plan the distribution of illicit commodities and money...

In a controversial decision, the Appeal Court found in February that the EncroChat material was not obtained through interception. Judges...

“These decisions have fundamental and far-reaching effects on the legal role of interception in future UK investigations and cases,”...

Experts suggest Parliament and Investigatory Powers Tribunal need to consider the implications of a court decision on police use of data...

Gendarmes based at the C3N digital crime unit in Pointoise, with the assistance of Dutch investigators, were able to covertly take copies...

The court found, in its written decision, that it was the responsibility of legislators to reconcile the rights of defendants to...

The campaign group, Fair Trials, denounced the constitutional court’s decision, arguing that there were clear violations of defendants’...

France’s Constitutional Council, which includes former prime ministers Laurent Fabius and Alain Juppé among its members, heard arguments...

France’s constitutional court has rejected arguments that the use of “defence secrecy” to withhold information from lawyers about a...