Smith Is Forced to Scrap 7/7 Inquest Secrecy Law
Evening Standard - London › October 14, 2008
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NEW laws which could have allowed parts of the 7/7 inquest to be heard in secret were today dropped by ministers in a second dramatic U-turn over anti-terror legislation.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was planning to use a clause in the Governments Counter Terrorism Bill to allow coroners to hear inquest evidence in private on the grounds of national security.See the full content of this document
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Smith Is Forced to Scrap 7/7 Inquest Secrecy Law
The aim was to ensure that sensitive intelligence material, such as phone-tap evidence, could be submitted without be...
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