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Key elements of a major terrorism trial can be held in secret for the first time, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
The case is being brought by the Crown against terror suspects Erol Incedal and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, who until now had been identified only as AB and CD.
Media organisations had contested the “unprecedented” decision by Mr Justice Nicol at the Old Bailey last month to accept the government’s application to have the trial heard entirely in secret, with a “permanent prohibition on reporting what takes place during the trial and their identities.”
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
