Legal Beagle: Dotcom spying: Crown criminal liability?
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Lucy Telfar Barnard, in reply to
That some technician might be the person to carry criminal liability for a decision made be people at a much higher pay grade, would seem a little unfair, but if you’re going to be intercepting the private communications of people, you do kind of a run a risk.
It’s more than “a little” unfair, and I also think it more than a little unfair to say those who take on the job also take on a risk of criminal prosecution if someone further up the food chain gets it wrong on who they’re allowed to intercept. I don’t think most if any, employees would have considered that as a risk when they took on the job.
I hadn’t considered that, but I’m pretty sure it’s limited to civil liability.
That said, I’d happily argue it if I was their defence lawyer!I can only hope such an argument would win.
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Graeme Edgeler, in reply to
I can only hope such an argument would win.
It didn't at Nuremberg!
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