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Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Judgments
Catalogue reference: HO 654
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HO 654
This series contains judgments of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. These judgments are written and handed down (issued) by tribunal judges at the conclusion of cases. They typically include significant detail about the facts of the cases and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 654
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Title (The name of the record)
- Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Judgments
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Date (When the record was created)
- From 2024
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains judgments of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
These judgments are written and handed down (issued) by tribunal judges at the conclusion of cases. They typically include significant detail about the facts of the cases and the reasons for the decisions reached.
As of 2024, judgments are typically created as Microsoft Word documents. These are transformed into the XML format LegalDocML for publication online. For a small proportion of judgments, supporting documents, such as orders or press summaries, also exist.
Published judgments are available at caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- UKIPTrib
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Investigatory Powers Tribunal, 2000-2000
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- digital record(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Published tribunal decisions are made available by the direction of the tribunal judges. They can be used under the terms and conditions of the Open Justice Licence.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Records not yet transferred
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2024 Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Computing
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- The National Archives receives and publishes tribunal decisions on an ongoing basis.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All tribunal decisions and, where applicable, supporting documents transferred to The National Archives are selected for permanent preservation.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is an advisory non-departmental public body established under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). Its functions are to consider all complaints against the intelligence services and those against public authorities in respect of powers covered by RIPA, and to consider proceedings brought under the Human Rights Act 1998 against the intelligence services and law enforcement agencies in respect of those powers.
Many tribunal decisions have been routinely published on the tribunals' websites. Decisions have also been re-published by legal publishers. The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII), founded in 2000, became one of the largest and most popular sources of freely-available case law information.
In June 2021, the Ministry of Justice made a policy announcement that The National Archives was to store, preserve and publish court judgments and tribunal decisions for England and Wales. An Alpha version of the publication service was launched in April 2022.
The Open Justice Licence was created in 2022 to support the re-use of information from published case law.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18952714/
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