Unlawfully obtained evidence is not automatically excluded from a criminal trial.

Evidence unlawfully obtained from the defendant by a private person is admissible.

The exceptions may, however, be relevant where the buyer has unlawfully obtained possession.

It was the site of much illegal dealing in the timber unlawfully obtained from the New Forest.

Where video evidence has been obtained unlawfully through trespass, there is very little prospect of securing a conviction.

Unlawfully obtaining other people's information for personal gain is a serious offence which can have potentially devastating effects.

All three men pleaded not guilty to the charges, which also include a misdemeanor accusation of unlawfully obtaining communications.

A port constable may seize anything found on board which he, with reasonable cause, suspects to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained.

"PKF has in the last few days accepted that they do have copies of the unlawfully obtained telephone records," he added.

In 2004 police found cocaine, prescription sleeping pills that he had unlawfully obtained, and anxiety medication in his apartment.