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UK: BBC - Terror suspects win legal battle over legality of using secret evidence

01 June 2009

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Terror suspects win legal battle (BBC News, link): "It is a major decision about the legality of using secret evidence. Three terror suspects on control orders have unanimously won a major ruling over the use of secret evidence. Nine Law Lords allowed the men's appeals after they had argued they did not know what they were accused of."

- House of Lords appeal: Full-text of judgment (pdf)
- Justice report: Secret Evidence (236 pages, pdf)
- Justice Briefing (pdf)

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