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Old 04-04-2012, 22:38   #10
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Re: Secret Court gets a hammering from Clegg

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i thought we already had a system in place for dealing with sensitive information in court cases
We do it's called the judge. Politicians and civil servants should not be involved.

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Reading between the lines the government is trying to get this through to keep the yanks happy and to ensure they can extradite and prosecute people on the flimsiest of evidence with no due process
Again the Americans can butt out. I don't blame them though, we are the ones bending over, and they are just doing what they do best.

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Perhaps Clegg will also have something to say about the secrecy of the family courts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...et-courts.html
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That's worrying for so many reasons ,the least of which is that it doesn't seem to be common knowledge that this happens
Some of this came out during the super injunctions thing. That’s one part of the law that does need reforming, but I think sometimes they are taking children away because they are afraid of another high profile mistake. I'm not going to pretend it's easy to get the balance right.
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