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There can be no fair trials with this perjurer's charter

By John Hirst

There can be no fair trials with this perjurer's charter

British justice coped with the Krays and Northern Ireland without recourse to secret witnesses, and we don't need them now

Parliament will this week be asked to make the most serious single assault on liberty in memory. The witness anonymity bill abolishes the right of defendants to know the identity of their accusers. This will result in thousands of unfair trials; and the principles of open justice, which this nation has contributed to the lexicon of human rights, will be gutted by a panic-stricken measure that encourages courts, in criminal cases of any kind, to suppress the identity of crucial witnesses.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).