TODAY'S DAILY MAIL EDITORIAL: An impassioned plea against secret justice
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2110228/An-impassioned-plea-secret-justice.html
Outrage of 7/7 families over secret courts plan: 'Cynical scheme
would let security services hush up their errors'
Justice Ministry plan would allow 'sensitive' cases to be heard in private
Public inquest into 7/7 attacks revealed many failings of police and MI5
Victim's father accuses the state of seeking 'dictator' powers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110206/Outrage-7-7-families-secret-courts-plan-Cynical-scheme-let-security-services-hush-errors.html
By Sam Greenhill and Keith Gladdis
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=21182
Daily Mail - Last updated at 11:05 AM on 5th March 2012
Families of July 7 bombing victims and soldiers killed by 'friendly
fire' have condemned the Government's secret justice plans as a
'dictator's charter'.
They said proposals to hold inquests and civil cases behind closed
doors could rob families of the right to see justice done.
They join a chorus of concern expressed by politicians of all parties
about Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke's plan to allow 'sensitive'
cases to be heard in private.
The reforms, detailed in a Green Paper on justice and security, would
grant the state 'dictator' powers and allow the security services to
hush up their mistakes, said Graham Foulkes, whose 22-year-old son
David was killed in the Edgware Road blast on July 7, 2005.
Many of the failings by MI5 and the police over the London bomb
atrocities could still be shrouded in secrecy were it not for the
public inquest.
Both organisations had been previously cleared of blame for the
bombings by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.
Mr Foulkes said: 'The Green Paper doesn't contain adequate safeguards
to prevent the state abusing the powers it would have.
'Our experience of MI5 gave us some insight into the ability of MI5
to cry "national security" and the politicians to roll over and play dead.
'The Intelligence and Security Committee was misled by MI5, so MI5
got away with attempts to hide their errors.
'Giving agents of the state the powers of a dictator and dressing it
up as being in the interests of the state is not right.'
Helen Perry, whose Royal Military Policeman son Michael Pritchard was
accidentally shot by a British Army sniper, said: 'The plans for
secret court cases are appalling, the public needs to hear what is
said. Many things have come to light that have led to changes such as
the lack of body armour for soldiers.'
The inquest into the death of 22-year-old Lance Corporal Pritchard in
December 2009 is due to be held in May, before the Government's plans
would come into effect.
But Mrs Perry, 49, from East Sussex, is angered that cases like her
son's could be held in secret.
She said: 'I would be devastated if I was denied access to the
inquest into my son's death. It's essential to me that we get to the
truth. I don't think they have the right to keep this information
from me. These new rules aren't needed. I understand there are
certain parts of Michael's inquest that need to be kept secret
because of the nature of his job.
'But the current rules mean that people can give evidence behind
screens or that certain things are heard in private, there is no need
for change.'
Clifford Tibber, the lawyer representing many 7/7 survivors and
families of the victims, said of the Government's proposals: 'It is a
shocking idea for so many reasons.
'The unprecedented openness of the evidence in the 7/7 inquests has
improved, rather than harmed, national security.
'The coroner was able to make recommendations designed to improve the
effectiveness of the security service.
'The Government's proposals are a cynical, self-serving attempt to
defeat legitimate claims and stifle the revelation of facts to which
the public are entitled.
'The Government says that the proposals are the only way there can be
a fair trial when evidence involving issues of national security is
involved. While that may be true for the Government, it means that
other parties who are denied access to that evidence cannot possibly
have a fair trial. They will not see or hear the evidence and will
not have an opportunity of testing it.'
The conduct of the security services was also exposed in the case of
Binyam Mohamed, the British resident tortured at Guantanamo Bay.
The Government fought and lost a lengthy legal battle to keep secret
what a judge eventually called Mr Mohamed's 'cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment'.
Clare Algar of the campaigning legal charity Reprieve, which
represented Mr Mohamed, said: 'The real driver for the Government's
plans is not national security, but political embarrassment.
'They are seeking to abolish the very legal method by which we first
found out that Britain had become mixed up in some of the worst
excesses of the "war on terror".
'The proposals would leave ministers in effect immune from having to
answer for their mistakes, so long as they made the claim that
"sensitive information" was involved.'
The Justice Ministry has defended its proposals on the grounds that
the security services have been hamstrung in defending themselves
against allegations of wrongdoing, because they cannot reveal secret
intelligence material in open court.
But lawyers and human rights groups have countered that there already
mechanisms in courts by which 'sensitive' evidence can be heard in secret.
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