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Showing posts with label Secret Justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secret Justice. Show all posts
December 11, 2012
Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America
December 5, 2012
How Australia can end the Assange stalemate
Australia can help Julian Assange negotiate his legal
problems while remaining consistent with the norms of international law
and with the level of assistance that would be offered to other
Australians, writes Donald Rothwell.
October 18, 2012
A great tradition of open justice
by
Geoffrey Robertson QC Please CIRCULATE
‘Justice must be seen to be done’ is a principle that Britain has contributed to the free world. It was first articulated in 1649 by ‘Freeborn John’ Lilburne, the Leveller, when Cromwell’s judges tried him for treason: they accepted his submission that ‘the first and fundamental liberty of an Englishman’ is that ‘no man whatsoever ought to be tried in holes and corners, or in any place where the gates are shut and barred’.
‘Justice must be seen to be done’ is a principle that Britain has contributed to the free world. It was first articulated in 1649 by ‘Freeborn John’ Lilburne, the Leveller, when Cromwell’s judges tried him for treason: they accepted his submission that ‘the first and fundamental liberty of an Englishman’ is that ‘no man whatsoever ought to be tried in holes and corners, or in any place where the gates are shut and barred’.
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