Diane Abbott podcast interview: Trials using Secret Evidence, By Charon QC

By Matt Wardman • June 25, 2009

The Wardman Wire team have joined with Charon QC to do a series of political podcasts. This is an interview with Diane Abbott MP.

Today I am talking to Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington about her latest campaign to prevent the use of “secret” evidence in UK courts.

Earlier in the year Diane tabled an early day motion (EDM) declaring “that this House believes the use of secret evidence in UK courts is fundamentally wrong”, and calling on the government “to begin an immediate independent review into the use of evidence that is not ever heard by the defendant or their lawyer but which is used to justify indefinite detention, severe bail conditions or control orders”.

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Tags: charonqc, control order, diane abbott, habeas corpus, secret evidence

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