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Terrorism (Detention and Human Rights)

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way so frequently, because it helps in this setting. What sort of oversight is his Committee thinking about? I raise the question because in our common law system, judges are on the whole reluctant to get dragged into such processes. They are the referees of criminal trials, not the proactive and inquisitorial agents of justice. Unless we create a new category of judge, the role that the judiciary can fulfil in our system is likely to be limited. I found his Committee’s proposals on that interesting but difficult to reconcile with our system.