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THE Justice Secretary claimed yesterday he was “very confident” that judges would be acting in the interests of justice if they decided to hold Britain’s first ever secret terror trial.
Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Chris Grayling said that while the “default” in the justice should be transparency, the law allowed “very rare occasions” where judges could decide to hold trials or parts of trials in private or “in camera.”
The Court of Appeal is considering a challenge from media organisations to orders made at the Old Bailey relating to the trial of two unnamed defendants, identified only as AB and CD, to be held behind closed doors.
The government’s case for abolishing most jury trials doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, argues KIM JOHNSON MP – and it must be stopped before it does lasting damage to democracy
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
Military justice system's ‘staggering lack of accountability’ and systemic failings revealed