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by JJMcJ 2760 days ago
> While serving the warrant and encouraging a witness to attend parliament "the Serjeant or his appointee may call on the full assistance of the civil authorities, including the police."

From the Wikipedia article.

So the Facebook employee was in fact under compulsion.

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Of course he was under compulsion - but I seriously doubt that anyone involved had a gun on them.