CSIS Snooping on Calls to Your Lawyer

By: Omar Ha-Redeye · December 21, 2008 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Ethics · 3 Comments 

Could CSIS be snooping in on your calls?  Routine harassment has been noted where they could not make a legal case.  And if they can violate solicitor-client privilege, anything is possible.

The concept of solicitor-client privilege goes back at least 400 years in the common law, and is one of the most well established concepts of privilege in our legal system.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was recently caught listening and recording conversations with Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub and his lawyer since the Egyptian refugee and terrorism suspect was released on bail over a year and a half ago.

When challenged by Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson, CSIS lawyer Jim Mathieson agreed that any such recordings would stop, and records would be erased.

But other defence lawyers have now raised some very serious concerns.  Dennis Edney, who represents one of the Toronto18 and Omar Khadr said in response,

How can we trust that the system is working appropriately?  Every lawyer in this country who’s involved in issues of national security has no way of knowing whether (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service) is monitoring their calls.

See the rest of the post over at Slaw.

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3 Responses to “CSIS Snooping on Calls to Your Lawyer”

  1. Suggestions on how to react to the "CSIS is listening" revelation : Law is Cool on January 2nd, 2009 3:55 pm

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  3. Simon M. McCrea, Ph.D on August 17th, 2009 9:20 pm

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