http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8659567.stm
in a strongly-worded ruling, the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger, sitting with two other senior Court of Appeal judges, said that no damages hearing could be heard in secret because the courts had not been empowered by Parliament to withhold evidence from the claimants.
"In our view, the principle that a litigant should be able to see and hear all the evidence which is seen and heard by a court determining his case is so fundamental, so embedded in the common law, that, in the absence of parliamentary authority, no judge should override it," said Lord Neuberger.
I like this timely reminder from Liberty too:
Corinna Ferguson, a lawyer at campaign group Liberty, said: "Yet again, the Court of Appeal has sent the strongest signal to the security establishment that it cannot play fast and loose with the rule of law.
"Fair and open justice belongs to people not governments. Whoever governs us from Friday would be wise to bear this in mind."
