Here We Go Again: UK Secret Inquests, 2nd Round
BBC reports that the UK government hasn’t given up on pushing for secret inquests:
Ministers are reintroducing measures to hold some inquests in secret on national security grounds.
The new bill covering coroners, murder laws, witness protection and sentencing comes months after the secret inquest plans were dropped in Parliament.
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Under the proposals, the press and public would be banned from inquests where the government can successfully argue that some of the circumstances of the death must be kept secret on national security grounds.
Last year, the proposal was met with stiff opposition with many people arguing that this was the death blow to the independent coroner system, a mainstay of legal transparency and a safeguard against governmental hush-ups.
Expectably, this move was originally tied to “anti terrorism” legislation - an all too common tactics these days whenever administrations are keen to subvert and effectively nix civil rights. This has been happening all across the Western world and we cannot reasonably expect it to end any time soon. If nothing else, Big Brother has always been infamous on the score of voraciousness…
