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Statewatch analysis: UK: Government’s “secret justice” Bill widely condemned

01 November 2012

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The Justice and Security Bill will allow ministers to force civil courts to hear evidence in secret if they believe it to be in the interest of national security. Verdicts will be reached on the basis of evidence that litigants and their lawyers have neither heard nor been given the opportunity to rebut.

See: Analysis (pdf)

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