Investigatory Powers Bill (First sitting)

Robert Buckland Excerpts

Thursday 24th March 2016 Public Bill Committees

[Keir Starmer (Holborn and St Pancras) (Lab)]

Thank you, Ms Dorries. May I make a declaration of interest in relation to this witness and a number of other witnesses generally? I know this witness and some others; I have worked with them both as a lawyer and as Director of Public Prosecutions. I therefore put that on the record—if I may make a general declaration, it applies to Mr Anderson and quite a number of the witnesses today.

[The Solicitor General (Robert Buckland)]

Ditto. I know many of the witnesses as well.

[Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire) (Con)]

David Anderson was my pupil master when I was a barrister.