Media appeal against courtroom secrecy in Erol Incedal trial hears remarks from top judge that MI6 and MI5 must comply with public prosecutionWarning: this article omits information that the Guardian and other news organisations are currently prohibited from publishing[br]The accountability of MI5 and MI6 and the question of whether they are fully subject to the rule of law lie at the heart of the media’s attempts to sweep away the secrecy surrounding a major terrorism trial,the lord chief justice said on Monday.
In a series of remarks that disclosed publicly for the first time the role that the UK’s security and intelligence agencies played in imposing secrecy on the trial of Erol Incedal, a London law student, or Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd told the court of appeal that pubic confidence in the way they effect their work was a key issue in the case.
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Source: theguardian.com