Report into police surveillance of journalists and lawyers to be published

Journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, after the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) held a four-day hearing in the case brought by the Northern Ireland-based filmmakers over claims they were secretly monitored by police (PA) - (PA Archive)

An independent review of covert police surveillance of journalists and lawyers in Northern Ireland is to be published later.

Angus McCullough KC was commissioned by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to examine the issue after a tribunal last year ruled that an undercover police operation to try to unmask the journalistic sources of two award-winning documentary makers was unlawful.