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Terrorism (Detention and Human Rights)

May I make this suggestion, which I shall develop in my comments? The truth is that an investigating magistrate on the continent is not a judge at all, but an independent prosecutor. In our country, there is a long tradition of prosecutors being ministers of justice: they should be capable of bringing impartial thinking to bear on what they do. It may be that the right hon. Gentleman is thinking of introducing some sort of independent prosecutor’s oversight of the system, and that in reality this is an exercise in semantics, because the person could do that job just as well.