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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
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