Companion website for

COMPARATIVE MEDIA LAW & ETHICS

by TIM CROOK

to be published by Routledge on 15th December 2009

For details of the book, please visit Routledge.

Author's profile at Goldsmiths, University of London

 

Secret witnesses in the British Legal system

 

‘There can be no fair trials with this perjurer's charter. British justice coped with the Krays and Northern Ireland without recourse to secret witnesses, and we don't need them now.’ Geoffrey Robertson QC in the Guardian 8th July 2008.

Letters in the Guardian supporting and commenting on Geoffrey Robertson’s article. 10th July 2008
‘The case against anonymous prosecution witnesses.’

Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008. UK Ministry of Justice summary.

‘Secret Evidence’ by Eric Metcalfe. A Report for JUSTICE: Advancing access to justice, human rights and the rule of law. June 2009.

JUSTICE briefing on the Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill July 2008.

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