Law Society: Rights may have been breached by Garda tapes

The Law Society has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny to set out its grave concern that people’s human rights may have been breached through the secret recording of calls with their solicitors.

The society said, on behalf of solicitors, it must have a say in the terms of reference for the imminent Commission of Investigation into the recording of calls to and from Garda stations during a 30-year period.

Its president, John Shaw, said people had a constitutional right to contact a solicitor and have that done in private.