admissibility

It has also pointed to the fact that two other grounds of appeal, related to how Mr Sullivan was interrogated and the admissibility of bite mark evidence, were rejected by appeal court judges.

He said it would be for the trial to decide upon their admissibility, reliability and what weight to attach to them.

Staff working on the report include a military expert, as well as experts on the use and admissibility of digital evidence.

It focuses particularly on the admissibility of the Pence evidence under the Supreme Court’s expansive immunity opinion, which gives the president a wide berth to engage in otherwise illegal conduct.

Appeal court decisions in England had upheld the admissibility of Encrochat evidence and it was not challenged in the high court in Glasgow, where Stevenson and his colleagues eventually pleaded guilty.