Cases

R (on the application of A) v B

Comment

This decision is likely to mean that future decisions regarding the publication of matters regarding the security services will be heard by the IPT, whose unusual procedures involve sitting in secret; no rights for claimants to be present, represented or even aware that hearings are taking place, or to know the other side's case; no reasons needing to be given for adverse decisions and no rights of appeal. However, as Lord Brown said at [31], "if the IPT's Rules and procedures are in any way incompatible with article 6, the remedy for that lies rather in their modification than in some artificially limited construction of the IPT's jurisdiction."

Areas of work

Human Rights
Publishing

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