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Terrorism Bill

Leaving aside the challenge that, ““Some people do not know about the courts but they know about something else”” and, ““Some people know about intercept evidence but they do not know enough about the courts””; Sir Swinton Thomas knows about both. So why does the noble Lord think it was that someone of his eminence, charged with this responsibility, knowing the courts as he does and knowing the material collected by the intelligence services, came to the conclusion that he put in the letter to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Ackner, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd? Why did he come to that conclusion?