Court strikes down law allowing State to spy on prisoner-lawyer calls

An amend­ment to the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act, giv­ing law en­force­ment of­fi­cers the au­thor­i­ty to lis­ten in, record and utilise tele­phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions be­tween pris­on­ers and their lawyers, has been de­clared un­con­sti­tu­tion­al.