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Justice and Security Bill [Lords]

Proceeding contribution from John McDonnell (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 December 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Justice and Security Bill [Lords].

May I point my hon. Friend to information given by Nicholas Blake QC—he is a special advocate—on what happens after a judgment is given in a Special Immigration Appeals Commission case? He says:

“If the special advocate thinks there is an error in law in the closed judgment, he gets permission to say, to pass a message out to the other team to say ‘I think you should be appealing, I can’t tell you why’…So there is a sort of open appeal. ‘We think there is something wrong but we don’t know what it is.’ And then the court goes into closed session”

to consider the matter. That is farce, not justice.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
555 c791 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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