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Parliament must stop secret courts wrecking British justice
Commenting ahead of today's [Tuesday 26 March] consideration by the Lords of Commons’ changes to the 'Secret Courts' Bill, Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said: "Secret courts will mean the end to the British right to a fair trial as we know it, and will put the Government above the law.
26 March 2013
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Lords to vote on restoring safeguards to plan for secret courts
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, March 26 2013
26 March 2013
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Ken Clarke 'misled' parliament over secret courts bill
By Mark Townsend, The Guardian, March 24 2013
24 March 2013
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Supreme Court sits in secret to hear national security case
By Francis Gibbs, The Times, March 22 2013
22 March 2013
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'A dark night for British justice'
By Ian Dunt, Politics.co.uk, March 04 2013
15 March 2013
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Secret courts bill expected to be passed
By Tom Whitehead, The Telegraph, March 04 2013
15 March 2013
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The march of secret justice: Minimum of 15 court cases a year to be held behind closed doors despite promise they would be 'rare'
By David Rose, The Mail Online, March 02 2013
15 March 2013
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Secret Courts: Campaigners Vow To Fight On
Yahoo! News, March 5 2013
05 March 2013
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Secret courts votes 'a dark night for British justice'
Commenting on votes on the Government plans for secret courts (set out in the Justice and Security Bill) in the House of Commons tonight,Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said: "This has been a dark night for British justice.These plans for secret courts were always dangerous and unnecessary, but the failure of even minor attempts to modify the Bill means that it is even worse than when it first reached the House of Commons.
04 March 2013
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UK Govt doesn’t know if Secret Courts could be used to restrict liberty
Ken Clarke today contradicted his own ministerial colleagues over whether the Government’s plans for secret courts could apply to habeas corpus cases, where an individual’s liberty is at stake.
04 March 2013
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Setting up secret courts 'would cost more than paying off terror suspects'... according to Government's own report!
By Jason Groves, Mail Online, March 04 2013
04 March 2013
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Commons backs plans for secret courts
BBC News, March 04 2013
04 March 2013
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Libyan 'rendition victim' Abdul Hakim Belhaj offers to settle UK lawsuit for £3 and apology
By Jerome Taylor, The Independent, March 4 2013
04 March 2013
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Libyan Rebel Wants £1 To Drop Rendition Case
Sky News, March 4 2013
04 March 2013
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Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Gaddafi Torture Victim, Willing To Settle For £3 And An Apology From UK Government
PA, The Huffington Post UK, March 4 2013
04 March 2013
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Libyan may settle 'torture' case for £3
The Telegraph, March 4 2013
04 March 2013
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Libyan torture victim's £3 settlement offer to UK government
Channel 4 News, March 4 2013
04 March 2013
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Secret court hearing plans pushed through by government
By Juliette Jowit and Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, March 4 2013
04 March 2013
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Secret courts plan faces Commons vote
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, March 03
03 March 2013
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“No reason exists” to justify “inherently unfair” Secret Courts, say expert lawyers
The Special Advocates, a group of expert lawyers who work in cases involving national security, have attacked the Government’s plans for secret courts, describing them as “inherently unfair and contrary to the common law tradition.”
03 March 2013
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Secret courts aim to reduce ‘political costs’ & will cost millions, new Govt document reveals
The Government’s plans for secret courts will cost millions more than they save and are aimed at reducing “reputation and political costs to the UK,” a new civil service assessment has revealed.
03 March 2013
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Ken Clarke ‘thoroughly misleading’ over secret courts, says former prosecutions chief
Former Director of Public Prosecutions, Ken Macdonald has criticised Ken Clarke’s claims on the Justice and Security Bill as ‘thoroughly misleading.’
01 March 2013
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Still no evidence secret courts needed, say MPs
An influential Parliamentary committee today said that the Government is still failing to demonstrate the need for a proposed roll-out of secret courts across the British justice system.
28 February 2013
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Eastleigh candidates challenged over secret courts
The main candidates in the Eastleigh by-election have been challenged to set out their position on the Government’s plans to roll out secret courts across Britain’s civil justice system.
27 February 2013
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'The height of hypocrisy': Damian Green criticised for justice system transparency call as Government pushes through secret court proposals
By Terri Judd, The Independent, February 19 2013
20 February 2013
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5 reasons to oppose the Government's Secret Courts plans
Here are five key reasons you should oppose the Government's plans for Secret Courts, contained in the Justice and Security Bill.
19 February 2013
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'Friendly fire' case could be last of its kind heard publicly
By Paddy McGuffin, Morning Star, February 19 2013
19 February 2013
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Supreme Court hears military negligence claim in open – possibly for the last time
Claims that Government negligence lead to the deaths of soldiers being heard by the Supreme Court today could in future be held in secret courts, should the Justice and Security Bill receive Parliament’s backing.
19 February 2013
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Government ready to shine a light on illegal rendition
By Frances Gibb, The Times, February 13 2013
13 February 2013
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Ken Clarke’s comments on Secret Courts show alarming disregard for legal freedoms
Commenting on Ken Clarke’s description of criticisms of the Secret Courts Bill as “legalistic hair-splitting,” which he made during today’s appearance before Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said: “This suggests that Ken Clarke either fails to understand the real concerns over this Bill...
12 February 2013
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Ken Clarke fights amendments to security bill
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, February 12 2013
12 February 2013
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Ken Clarke defends controversial plans for secret courts
Terri Judd, The Independent, February 12 2013
12 February 2013
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Government changes make Secret Courts Bill even worse
Ministers were yesterday successful in pushing changes through a Parliamentary committee which would further strengthen their ability to make use of secret courts to defend themselves.
06 February 2013
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Secrecy and moral hazard
By Anthony Peto QC, thelawyer.com, February 4 2013
04 February 2013
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Climbdown on secret courts not as it seems, campaigners claim
By Tom Whitehead, The Telegraph, January 30 2013
31 January 2013
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Secret courts: MPs to begin line-by-line battle over justice and security bill
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, January 29 2013
31 January 2013
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Anger rises over 'secret justice' Bill
By Brian Brady, The Independent, January 27 2013
31 January 2013
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Justice and Security Bill secrecy amendments attacked
By Dominic Casciani, BBC News, January 31 2013
31 January 2013
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Police Spy Case Shows Threat of Secret Courts
By Clare Algar, Huffington Post, January 23 2013
31 January 2013
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Police Spy Case Shows Threat of Secret Courts
Last week, lawyers for the police were partly successful in pushing a case concerning what has been described as the "sexual and psychological abuse of campaigners for social justice... by undercover police officers" into a secret tribunal, from which little if any evidence of just how this was allowed to happen will emerge.
31 January 2013
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Government undermines Lords changes to secret courts Bill
Ministers are attempting to roll back concessions won by the Lords over their plans for secret courts.
29 January 2013
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Stop the Government’s plans for Secret Courts
The Government is planning to roll out secret courts across the civil justice system which would destroy the centuries-old British right to a fair trial and help to cover up state involvement in serious crimes such as torture and rendition. Please help us stop these dangerous plans by writing to your MP to voice your opposition to Part 2 of the Justice and Security Bill.
09 January 2013
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Rendition, Zero Dark Thirty and the brutal reality of Britain's secret services
By Henry Porter, The Observer, December 16 2012
22 December 2012
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Army widow hits out against secret justice
By Marco Giannangeli, Sunday Express, December 16 2012
22 December 2012
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Judges should decide secret courts, government accepts
By BBC News, December 18 2012
22 December 2012
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Ken Clarke fails to rule out need for secret courts in MoD cases
By Owen Bowcott and Ian Cobain, The Guardian, December 18 2012
20 December 2012
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U-turn on secret court controls means judges will be given full control on whether to set them up
By Tim Shipman, The Daily Mail, December 19 2012
20 December 2012
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Clarke admits secret courts could be used in cases where soldiers failed by MoD
Ken Clarke, the minister responsible for the Justice and Security Bill, today admitted that the secret courts it proposes could be used in cases where forces families bring claims for negligence against the government.
18 December 2012
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Secret courts opposed by army widow and torture victims
The Government is to push ahead with plans for secret courts tomorrow, despite recent opposition ranging from the widow of a soldier who is bringing a negligence claim against the MoD to a family ‘rendered’ to Gaddafi’s Libya by UK intelligence.
17 December 2012
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Secret Court Proceedings Defended By Cameron Amid Criticism From Civil Liberty Campaigners
Huffington Post UK, December 11 2012.
12 December 2012
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Cameron defends decision to block top civil service appointment
BBC News, December 11 2012
12 December 2012
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Cameron's secret courts claims hide Government's aim to avoid embarrassment
Commenting on the Prime Minister's claims – in defence of the Justice and Security ("Secret Courts") Bill – that the Government is currently having to pay compensation because it cannot fight cases in court and sometimes has to settle with some "unsavoury people," Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said: "The reality is that the Government has settled cases because there has been clear evidence they were mixed up in serious human rights abuses."
11 December 2012
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Secret courts must be stopped
Last week, the House of Lords inflicted heavy defeats on the Government over the secret courts Bill. But unfortunately, the heart of these dangerous plans, which would put ministers above the law and deny justice to ordinary citizens, remains very much in tact.
26 November 2012
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“Commitment to open justice underpins the rule of law,” says Supreme Court chief
The President of the UK Supreme Court has given a speech emphasising the importance of open justice and publicly-available judgments – just as the Government continues with its attempt to push through secret courts plans which would threaten both.
22 November 2012
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Secret Courts must be defeated altogether
Ultimately, the only way to safeguard our centuries-old tradition of open and equal justice is to kick out these dangerous plans for secret courts altogether.
21 November 2012
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Supreme Court added to secret justice plans meaning highest court in the land could be held behind closed doors
By James Chapman, the Daily Mail, November 15 2012.
20 November 2012
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Ex-MI5 head tries to justify secret trials
By Paddy McGuffin, Morning Star, November 14 2012
20 November 2012
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Government refuses to release legal advice on Secret Courts Bill, claiming “public interest better served by withholding”
The Government is refusing to publish legal advice it has taken on whether its plans for secret courts conflict with the right to a fair trial, claiming that the “public interest” requires that it is kept secret.
20 November 2012
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Clare Algar on BBC Radio 5 discussing the Justice and Security Bill
Clare Algar, executive director of Reprieve, discussing the Justice and Security Bill on BBC Radio 5
19 November 2012
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Cameron brushing aside ancient rights to fair trial & equality before law
The Prime Minister seems determined to hamstring the courts when it comes to holding ministers accountable for their actions.
19 November 2012
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Activists step up campaign against secret justice bill
By Sam Masters, The Independent, November 11 2012
13 November 2012
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Civil liberties stance over secret courts plan too simplistic, says Ken Clarke
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, November 2 2012
13 November 2012
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Secret courts at odds with fair trial rights, says watchdog
The Government’s plans for secret courts are incompatible with both the centuries-old common law right to a fair trial and the European Convention on Human Rights, a government watchdog has warned.
31 October 2012
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MI6 accused of misleading MPs over Libya rendition
Steve Swan, BBC News, 11 October 2012
22 October 2012
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Jack Straw 'misled MPs over British involvement in secret rendition of Libyan suspects'
Jack Doyle, The Daily Mail, 10 October 2012
22 October 2012
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Jack Straw accused of misleading MPs over torture of Libyan dissidents
By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 10 October 2012
19 October 2012
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Judges will be “fettered” by Secret Courts Bill, admits Government reviewer
The Government’s reviewer of terrorism legislation today agreed that British judges would be “fettered” by plans for secret courts currently before Parliament.
16 October 2012
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The Secret Justice Bill will allow governments to conceal embarrassing information
The Government’s claim that “nothing currently heard in open court could be heard in secret” under the Justice and Security Bill can only mean one of two things: either those responsible for the Bill are seeking to mislead the public, or they have failed to understand the full implications of the legislation.
01 October 2012
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Why Lib Dems should vote against the secret courts bill on Tuesday
Clare Algar: why Lib Dems should vote against the secret courts bill on Tuesday
24 September 2012
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Government admits secret courts would protect it from bad publicity
By Richard Norton-Taylor and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24/09/2012
24 September 2012
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Secret courts threaten justice for all
Clare Algar, The Guardian, 14 September 2012
17 September 2012
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Libya renditions revelations show Secret Courts Bill must be dropped
A major new Human Rights Watch report on rendition published today "makes the case against the introduction of secret courts, which would cover up UK complicity in torture and rendition, stronger than ever."
06 September 2012
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Cameron reshuffle brings critic of legal aid cuts into ministry of justice
By Owen Boycott, The Guardian, 06/09/2012
06 September 2012
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Why is new Justice Secretary not responsible for key justice Bill?
Why is new Justice Secretary not responsible for key justice Bill?
05 September 2012
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Tories keep Clarke on to push through secret trials Bill
By Paddy McGuffin, The Morning Star, 05/09/2012
05 September 2012
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New Justice Secretary must drop dangerous secret courts Bill
A new Justice Secretary gives the Government the chance to drop its dangerous plans for secret courts, says Reprieve's Executive Director.
04 September 2012
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Secret court proposals compared to superinjunctions
By Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 19/08/2012
22 August 2012
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Defend open justice
Leader, The Daily Mail, 17/08/2012
17 August 2012
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Secret inquest plan back from the dead: Ministers in plot to smuggle in law, claim civil liberties campaigners
By James Slack, Daily Mail, 17/08/2012
17 August 2012
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Secret trials to cover up Britain's role in torture
By Paddy McGuffin, The Morning Star, 17/08/2012
17 August 2012
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Government’s use of proposed secret courts may itself be secret
The very existence of secret courts currently being legislated for by the Government may itself be a secret, it has emerged.
17 August 2012
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The big questions: Was John Terry wronged? Do we need the Lords? And would you jail bankers?
By Clive Stafford Smith, The Independent, 14/07/12
16 July 2012
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The long, slow death of innocence
By Clive Stafford Smith, New Statesman, 04/07/12
16 July 2012
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Secret court proposals threaten habeas corpus safeguards, charity warns
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 13/07/12
16 July 2012
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Secret justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation
The Government this week confirmed that plans for secret courts would extend to challenges against detention without charge or trial – known as habeas corpus proceedings.
13 July 2012
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Why serious doubts remain over 'Secret Justice' plans
By Kirsty Walker, The Daily Mail, 27/06/2012
27 June 2012
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Government creating ‘straitjacket’ for judges with secret courts Bill, warn legal experts
Expert lawyers today warned that the Government’s controversial plans for secret courts would create a “statutory straitjacket” for judges – contradicting ministers’ claims that judges will always have the “final decision” over the use of closed procedures.
26 June 2012
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Government 'misunderstood' role of judge in secret courts bill
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 26/06/2012
26 June 2012
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Lawyers warn MPs and peers over secret courts plan
By BBC News, 26/06/2012
26 June 2012
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Listen to BBC's File on 4 on secret justice
Listen to BBC's 'File on 4'-report on secret justice, including a comment by Reprieve's Legal Director Cori Crider, showing how closed proceedings will have serious consequences for individuals' basic human rights.
22 June 2012
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Clarke sneaks in secret evidence plans
By Paddy McGuffin, The Morning Star, 18/06/2012
18 June 2012
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Lords warn Government over ‘Henry VIII’ powers in secret courts Bill – ‘concessions’ over inquests could be reversed
A new House of Lords report has warned that measures in the Justice and Security Bill would allow ministers to reverse key ‘concessions’ – notably over inquests – which they claim to have made to controversial plans for closed courts.
17 June 2012
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UK Lords condemn gov’t secret justice
By Press TV, 16/06/2012
16 June 2012
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Happy Birthday Magna Carta: To no one will we refuse or delay right or justice
On this day in 1215, Magna Carta dared to suggest the King must obey our laws. Now, our Government seeks to put itself above them.
15 June 2012
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Plans for secret hearings in civil courts attacked by Lords committee
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 15/06/2012
15 June 2012
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A question of balance
By The Economist, 01/06/2012
01 June 2012
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Time to stop paying out to terrorists, says Clarke: Bill will let security services fight unfounded compensation cases
By Jack Doyle, The Daily Mail, 30/05/2012
30 May 2012
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Listen to Ken Macdonald discuss the Justice and Security Bill on BBC Radio 4
Ken Macdonald - the Chair of Reprieve's Board of Trustees - talks about why the newly published Justice and Security Bill threatens Britain's centuries-old tradition of open justice.
29 May 2012
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FactCheck: Secret justice?
By Cathy Newman, Channel 4, 29/05/2012
29 May 2012
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Watch Clare Algar talk about the Justice and Security Bill on BBC News
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar talks about the new Justice and Security Bill, and explains why it should be rejected altogether.
29 May 2012
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Teenage rendition victim protests Ken Clarke's plan for 'secret court' hearing of her family's case
A teenager who was rendered at age twelve by the UK to Gaddafi's Libya has compared Ken Clarke's secret court plans to her experience of 'justice' under Gaddafi, whereby the Security Services would "whisper in the ear of the judge" evidence used to convict her father.
29 May 2012
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Government scraps 'secret inquests' plan
By BBC News, 29/05/2012
29 May 2012
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Nick Clegg wins fight to remove closed inquests from 'secret justice' bill
By Owen Bowcott and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 29/05/2012
29 May 2012
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The Justice and Security Bill: unaccountable government and unfair courts
The Justice and Security Bill has been published today. The government claims to have made significant concessions. In fact, none of these touch the heart of the bill, which is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out of open court.
29 May 2012
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Secret justice plan stalls just days before unveiling after row into whether inquests should be included
By James Chapman, The Daily Mail, 23/05/2012
23 May 2012
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Dangerous secret justice plans will still cover up Government wrongdoing
Responding to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s defence yesterday of the Government’s proposals for secret courts, in which he stated that “We’ll make it the judge that makes the decision,” and claimed, “When I announced what I was proposing last October there was no fuss, everybody agreed,” Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:
21 May 2012
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Court television plan revealed in Queen's Speech
By BBC News, 09/05/2012
09 May 2012
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Queen’s Speech secret justice plans will put Government above the law
Responding to the plans for 'secret justice' and closed courts set out in the Queen's Speech today, Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said:
09 May 2012
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Fury at 'secret justice' plan in Queen's speech
By Neil Millard, The Sun, 09/05/2012
09 May 2012
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Every email and computer click to be stored in huge expansion of surveillance state unveiled in the Queen's Speech
By Rick Dewsbury, The Daily Mail, 09/05/2012
09 May 2012
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Queen's speech: plan for secret hearings in civil courts brought forward
By Owen Bowcott and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 09/05/2012
09 May 2012
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Con-Dems unveil secret justice plans
By Paddy McGuffin, Morning Star, 09/05/2012
09 May 2012
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It's not just torture victims who should fear the 'justice and security' green paper
Progress has been made in holding people to account for rendition to Libya, but plans for secret justice are a move in the wrong direction
19 April 2012
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It's not just torture victims who should fear the 'justice and security' green paper
By Clare Algar, The Guardian, 18/04/2012
18 April 2012
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Smoke and mirrors in the British battle over ‘secret justice’
British spies are trying to change the rules of the game so certain trials would never see the light of day. If they succeed, torture victims might never win.
11 April 2012
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JCHR: Report on the Justice and Security Green Paper
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has released a report, rejecting the Government's proposals in the Justice and Security Green Paper as "inherently unfair".
10 April 2012
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Justice at risk in terror war
By Marco Giannangeli, The Daily and Sunday Express, 08/04/2012
08 April 2012
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Smoke and Mirrors in the British Battle Over ‘Secret Justice’
By Cori Crider, The Daily Beast, 06/04/2012
06 April 2012
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No need for secret justice say CIA spies: U.S. 'would never hold back terror intelligence from Britain'
By Tim Shipman, The Daily Mail, 05/04/2012
05 April 2012
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Watch Clare Algar talking about secret justice on Channel 4 News
Reprieve's Executive Director explains why the the Government's Green Paper on Justice and Security must be dropped.
05 April 2012
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Listen to Clare Algar talking about secret trials on BBC Radio Wales
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar explains why the Green Paper on Justice and Security undermines centuries-old principles of British justice.
05 April 2012
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Listen to Ken Macdonald QC discussing the Green Paper on Justice and Security on BBC PM
Reprieve's Chair explains why the government's plans for secret courts are both unnecessary and unfair.
05 April 2012
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Watch Clare Algar talking about secret justice on the BBC
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar discusses the Green Paper on Justice and Security.
05 April 2012
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Government plans to hold more secret court hearings attacked as 'unfair' and 'dangerous'
By Terri Judd, The Independent, 04/04/2012
04 April 2012
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Clegg opposes secret trials plans
By ITV News, 04/04/2012
04 April 2012
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David Cameron defends secret court hearing and surveillance proposals
By Patrick Wintour and Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 04/04/2012
04 April 2012
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Listen to Clare Algar talk about secret justice on BBC Radio 5 Live
Executive Director of Reprieve, Clare Algar, talks about the government's plans to hold trials in secret, and why this should not replace a perfectly good justice system already in place.
04 April 2012
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Clare Algar: Secret courts plans must be dropped altogether
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar comments on the Deupty Prime Minister's intervention in the debate over the Government's secret justice plans
04 April 2012
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JCHR report exposes flimsy basis for Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's secret justice plans
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has today attacked the Government’s Green Paper on Justice and Security for using “vague predictions” and “spurious assertions” to justify dangerous changes to the legal system.
04 April 2012
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Secret justice 'not crucial to U.S. ties': Elite lawyers dismiss argument for court restrictions
By James Chapman and Tim Shipman, The Daily Mail, 28/03/2012
29 March 2012
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Reprieve attacks 'myths' used to justify secret trials
By Paddy McGuffin, Home Affairs Reporter, The Morning Star, 27/03/2012
28 March 2012
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9/11 case that 'highlights the danger of secret court plan': U.S. intelligence used similar powers to hide failings, claims Tory MP
By James Chapman, The Daily Mail, 28/03/2012
28 March 2012
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US acted to conceal evidence of intelligence failure before 9/11
By Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 27/03/2012
28 March 2012
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David Davis' revelations show why secret justice plans must be stopped
Commenting on MP David Davis' speech to the House of Commons tonight, in which he outlined how the US and UK have attempted to suppress embarrassing information in the name of 'national security,' and challenged the Government over its plans set out in the Green Paper on Justice and Security, Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said: "This demonstrates just how ready the intelligence services are to cry national security in order to cover up their own embarrassment."
27 March 2012
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The spooks' conversion of David Anderson QC
By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 27/03/2012
27 March 2012
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New report on Binyam Mohamed v Foreign Office: the myth of the ‘leaky’ case and why the security services want us to believe it
Reprieve has today released an analysis of the case of Binyam Mohamed v Foreign and Commonwealth Office aimed at debunking the dangerous myths around the case.
27 March 2012
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Response to David Anderson's comments on the secret justice green paper
"Having failed to win the public argument the security services have retreated to the secret lunch. This is not an acceptable basis on which to simply junk our centuries-old tradition of open justice."
21 March 2012
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Furtive briefings by MI5 and the Government's BIG LIE over secret justice
By David Rose, The Mail Online, 17/03/2012
19 March 2012
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Secret Court Hearings For 'Embarrassed Intelligence Agencies'
The Huffington Post, UK, 12/03/2012
19 March 2012
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AGENCIES 'AVOIDING EMBARRASSMENT'
The Express (online edition), 12/02/2012
19 March 2012
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Opposition grows to “chilling” plans for secret justice
The disturbing potential of the government's plans to extend secret justice across the country's civil courts has hit the headlines, with the Mail, Times, Guardian, Independent and FT all united in condemnation.
15 March 2012
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Clarke in 'secret' hearings row
The Press Association, Google News, 14/03/2012
15 March 2012
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Lord Macdonald: Ministers wrong on CIA secret justice fears
Martin Beckford, Home Affairs Editor, 13/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Agencies 'avoiding embarrassment'
Belfast Telegraph, 13/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Doubts growing among MPs over plans for secret justice as chilling reality of system is revealed for first time
By James Chapman and Kirsty Walker, The Daily Mail, 13/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Lib Dem Conference Must Focus on Secret Justice Plans
By Clare Algar, Huffington Post, 09/03/2012
14 March 2012
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The Independent View: why proposals for secret trials should be opposed
By Clare Algar, Lib Dem Voice, 09/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Inquests MUST be open says British Legion chief who fears secret justice plans would 'compound grief of bereaved'
By James Chapman, The Daily Mail, 09/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Clarke's concerns: spies and satisfying the Americans
By Richard Norton Taylor, The Guardian, 06/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Ken Clarke defends 'secret' hearings
By Wesley Johnson, The Independent, 06/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Clarke 'most unsettled' by backlash over plans to extend secret court hearings
By James Chapman, The Daily Mail, 07/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Fresh blow to ministers who want the power to have trials held in secret
By Frances Gibb Legal Editor 01/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Clarke backs secret trials in face of ‘unique’ threat
By Frances Gibb, Legal Editor, The Times 05/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Open court a security risk, says Clarke
By Francis Gibb, Legal Editor, the Times 07/03/2012
14 March 2012
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Leading article: Secret justice is no justice at all
Leader, The Independent, 08/03/2012
08 March 2012
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Ken Clarke unsettled by criticism of secret courts plan
By Owen Bowcott and Ian Cobain, the Guardian, 07/03/20121
07 March 2012
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‘Secret trials could increase security risk’
By Frances Gibb, The Times, 06/03/2012 (paywall)
07 March 2012
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Justice Secretary Ken Clarke “unsettled” by expert lawyers’ opposition to secret justice – he must now act
The Justice Secretary today admitted that he was “unsettled” by the response of a group of expert lawyers to the Government’s controversial secret justice plans.
06 March 2012
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Clarke attempts to quell concerns over secret court hearings
By Wesley Johnson & Tom Lawrence, PA/The Independent, 06/03/2012
06 March 2012
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Ken Clarke defends 'secret court cases' proposals
BBC News, 06/03/2012
06 March 2012
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Clarke quells 'secret justice' fear
Press Association, 06/03/2012
06 March 2012
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Outrage of 7/7 families over secret courts plan: 'Cynical scheme would let security services hush up their errors'
By Sam Greenhill and Keith Gladdis, the Daily Mail, 05/03/2012
05 March 2012
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Mr Cameron and the threat to open justice
Daily Mail editorial, 03/03/2012
05 March 2012
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Justice and security green paper: silence in court
Guardian editorial, 03/03/2012
05 March 2012
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Cameron defies the critics over controversial plans to bring in secret courts, despite warnings it will undermine democracy
By Jason Groves, the Daily Mail, 03/03/2012
05 March 2012
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Ministry of Justice sounds warning over secret hearings
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 05/03/2012
05 March 2012
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Government secret justice plans may cost millions and endanger security, warns Ministry of Justice
The Government’s own assessment of its plans for secret courts has warned that they could cost an extra £11 million every year, and lead to a “higher risk of potential security breaches.”
05 March 2012
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Secret courts condemnded - by the very lawyers who would have to run them
By James Chapman, the Daily Mail, 02/03/2012
02 March 2012
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Parties unite against secret injustice: Horrified MPs and peers condemn Clarke's plan for court cases behind closed doors
By James Chapman and Kirsty Walker, the Daily Mail, 01/03/2012
01 March 2012
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Government faces revolt over "secret justice" expansion
By James Orr, the Daily Telegraph, 01/03/2012
01 March 2012
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This chilling threat to liberty and justice
Daily Mail editorial, 29/02/2012
29 February 2012
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Secret justice and an abuse of power: Alarm at Government's plan to allow controversial court cases and inquests to be heard behind closed doors
By James Chapman, the Daily Mail, 29/02/2012
29 February 2012
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Listen to Ken Macdonald QC on BBC Today discussing the Justice and Security Green Paper
Reprieve's Chair and the former Director of Public Prosecutions tells the Radio 4 Today programme why the Coalition's plans for a new secret justice system effectively put the Government above the law.
28 February 2012
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Secret justice plans threaten to 'put Government above the law,' warns former prosecutions chief Ken Macdonald
The former Director of Public Prosecutions has today warned that the Government's plans to introduce secret court proceedings in civil cases are an audacious attack on Britain's justice system, and risk placing the Government above the law.
28 February 2012
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Say no to secret justice
We need your help to confront the British Government's assault on open justice – please raise your concerns with your MP.
07 February 2012
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Dinah Rose: Atkin Memorial Lecture on the Green Paper
Beef and Liberty: Fundamental Rights and the Common Law
16 January 2012
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Green Paper on Justice and Security: Consultation Response
Reprieve's consultation response to the Justice and Security Green Paper
12 December 2011
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UK Government defends new system to suppress torture allegations
Foreign Secretary William Hague is today expected to defend proposals by the UK Government, set out in the Justice and Security Green Paper, which would increase the use of secret proceedings in British courts, and close off the legal route by which evidence of British complicity in torture first came to light.
16 November 2011
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British Government seeks to ban legal principle which led to release of torture evidence in Binyam Mohamed case
Today the Coalition Government published a Justice and Security Green Paper proposing major reforms to how government and intelligence agents supply evidence to British courts. The proposals are highly dangerous in terms of how they affect the British legal system and the position of victims of torture and abuse.
19 October 2011
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Justice and Security Green Paper
Reprieve opposes this Justice and Security Green Paper, published by the Government on 19/10/11
19 October 2011
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Timeline: Justice and Security Green Paper
A timeline of events leading up to the publication of the government's Green Paper on secret evidence.
18 October 2011
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