Where police have seized a solicitor's computer pursuant to a warrant in a murder investigation and the solicitor was also acting for an accused, the court may order production under s 317 to enable the Crown to discharge its disclosure obligations where police face legal difficulties in examining the material without a court order. However, production will be limited to material relating to the applicant; broader requests for material about the solicitor's informing on other clients will be refused as fishing unless the applicant can specify how their trials were directly affected.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 7 later cases that cite this judgment.
1 of the 7 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.