jcjeant;
re your response to Dozy's comment, "I would be more cautious about using the word "precisely"
Await trial ... "
Oh, I and most everyone recognize that the courts will attempt to, and will in many cases do what they may in accordance with "the public interest". Nothing would surprise me in any jurisdiction after Canada's, (actually a Quebec Court's), conditional release* of the "so-called 'protected-by-law' " CVR recordings from an accident a number of years ago.
I am arguing a caution as regards ultimate outcomes in areas of specific interest, namely the aviation safety system which has delivered unquestionably spectacular and enviable results for users and corporations alike due in large measure to the industry's unequalled-in-no-other-venue principles and efforts to protect safety information, gathered both voluntarily at great corporate expense and also as a result of legal SMS data-capturing requirements, from use in narrow legal prosecutions.
I am not arguing that it won't possibly be done, even as it may after much visceral political and legal wrangling at tremendous expense and collateral damage to the aviation safety process.
*TSB opinion on the protection of safety information