VOR DEBATE - Secret courts

Nov 28, 2012, 03:23 PM

The British Government wants to introduce Closed Material Procedures or 'secret courts' for civil cases involving sensitive information about national security. In the controversial procedures, the defendant won't know what evidence is brought against them and neither will their lawyer. The Voice of #Russia's Vivienne Nunis discusses the conflict between open justice and national security with the QC Lord Edward #Faulks, a member of Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights; Keith Best, a former Conservative MP and the Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture; and Stephen Tall, the co-editor of the Liberal Democrat Voice.