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Secret justice may become more secret

Secret justice may become more secret

Special advocates ‘surprised and alarmed’ by planned new restrictions

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Joshua Rozenberg
Dec 30, 2021
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Government plans to discourage claimants from choosing lawyers to represent their interests in closed hearings appear to be “regressive and unprincipled”, a group of 33 security-cleared lawyers have said. The lawyers, known as special advocates, made their comments in written submissions to a review being conducted by Sir Duncan Ouseley, a retired High …

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