Including:

• Inner file: `telephone tapping': containing material on the Interception of Communication Bill and the investigation into alleged breaches of guidelines by MI5; including Hansard extracts; briefing information; copy of Margaret Thatcher's letter to Neil Kinnock discussing the official investigation, Mar 1985
• Inner file: `BBC Scotland, Special Branch activities, Zircon Satellite and the case for a Bill of Rights': containing material relating to the raid of BBC Glasgow's office in Feb 1987 by the Special Branch to retrieve material connected to films on the Zircon spy satellite affair, including copied cuttings, David Owen's note for a speech on the raid, 3 Feb 1987, Hansard extracts containing David Owen's comments on the system for issuing warrants in such cases; copy of letter from David Owen to Lord Cameron the Lord Advocate, discussing laws governing the issue of warrants, 6 Feb 1987; public letters with David Owen's replies discussing his views on the incident, etc
• Inner file (unlabelled) containing material concerning Government decision to suspend the Bingham Committee on the Discovery of Documents investigating the contempt of court laws in cases of revealing documents used as evidence in court at the same time as an appeal by Labour Party MP Harriet Harman to the European Commission on Human Rights following a contempt of court verdict found against her was ruled admissible; including correspondence between David Owen and Margaret Thatcher discussing suspension of the Committee, Jun-Dec 1984 etc.