The Centre for Policy Studies was delighted to be announced as the winner of Prospect Magazine‘s ‘Publication of the Year’ for Andrew Tyrie MP and Anthony Peto QC’s ‘Neither Just Nor Secure‘ pamphlet, an examination of the government’s Justice and Security Bill.
Read the report ‘Neither Just Nor Secure‘ by Andrew Tyrie MP and Anthony Peto QC. #
Reaction to follow.
Media Impact:
“Yes, the intelligence services do a vital job. Yes, they are doing it in very difficult circumstances. Yes, they deserve our full support. But secret courts and ever-tighter restrictions on the disclosure of information in cases deemed ‘sensitive’ will damage Britain’s system of open justice and the reputation and effectiveness of the security agencies in the struggle against terrorism.”
- Tim Knox, The Spectator: The secret courts bill won’t enhance justice or make us more secure
“Plans for secret courts to be voted on by MPs today will undermine centuries of open justice and erode Britain’s moral standing in the world, according to a hard-hitting new report.”
- The Daily Mail: Secret court bill ‘threatens centuries of open justice and will erode Britain’s moral standing in the world’
“In a damning report written jointly with Anthony Peto QC for the Centre for Policy Studies, Mr Tyrie said the Bill, which will be debated in Parliament tomorrow (TUES), “sits uneasily with deeply entrenched and well-understood ways of providing justice in Britain”.”
- The Daily Telegraph: Secret court hearings ‘will do more harm than good’, Tory MP says
- The Guardian: Tory MP Andrew Tyrie attacks secret courts bill
- The Independent: Anger rises over ‘secret justice’ Bill
- The Spectator: Senior Tory mulls changes to secret courts bill
- The Metro: Secret trials bill a ‘threat to Britain’s moral standing’
- The Scotsman: Lawyer’s warning over UK ‘secret courts’
- The Daily Telegraph: Judges given final say on secret justice
- The Daily Mail: Clarke is forced into a secret justice U-turn after peers’ protests
- The Guardian: Fresh attacks on “secret courts” as MPs debate contested bill
- The Herald Scotland: Warning over secret hearings
- Huffington Post: Secret Court Hearings: Justice And Security Bill ‘Risks Britain’s Moral Standing’
- Law and More: Why the Justice and Security Bill is Neither Just nor Secure
- Morning Star: Justice and Security Bill ‘neither just nor secure’
- The Guardian: Secret courts will let UK security services off the hook
- The Spectator: Tory MPs keen for changes on secret courts bill as Lib Dem grassroots clash with Clegg
- The Liberal Democrat Voice: The Independent View: National security is paramount but ‘secret courts’ are an illeberal attack on British justice
- Public Service Review: “Secret Courts Bill must be overhauled”
- The Guardian: The justice and security bill is a chilling affront to British justice
- The Times: Justice and Security Bill will hide Britain’s role in kidnap and torture
Date Added: Thursday 27th June 2013
