A team of at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing high-risk in­mates Earl Richards and Ra­jaee Ali, along with Cana­di­an YouTu­ber Christo­pher “Christ Must List” Hugh­es, has ac­cused statu­to­ry au­thor­i­ties of again fail­ing to com­ply with manda­to­ry re­port­ing and ac­count­abil­i­ty oblig­a­tions es­tab­lished by Par­lia­ment.

In a let­ter dat­ed Thurs­day and sent to the head of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC), Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace, and Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, the at­tor­neys raised se­ri­ous con­sti­tu­tion­al and statu­to­ry con­cerns over the ap­par­ent fail­ure to meet manda­to­ry re­port­ing re­quire­ments un­der the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency Act (SSAA) and the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act.

The let­ter high­light­ed un­cer­tain­ty over whether re­quired an­nu­al re­ports and statu­to­ry dis­clo­sures had been prop­er­ly pre­pared, sub­mit­ted and laid be­fore Par­lia­ment. The at­tor­neys stressed that their con­cerns were not chal­lenges to op­er­a­tional in­tel­li­gence ac­tiv­i­ties, but in­stead raised con­sti­tu­tion­al ques­tions about whether safe­guards en­act­ed by Par­lia­ment had been ef­fec­tive­ly main­tained.