The claimants alleged that the defendants had been complicit in their unlawful detention, torture and mistreatment whilst held in Somalia pending being brought to the UK in 2011. The defendants now applied for a declaration permitting closed material applications.
Held: The court had power to make such an order even before a public interest immunity claim had been made and without determining such an application.
Irwin J
[2013] EWHC 3402 (QB), [2013] WLR(D) 439, [2014] 1 WLR 1699, [2014] 2 All ER 378
Bailii, WLRD
Justice and Security Act 2013 6
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Belhaj and Another v Director of Public Prosecutions and Another SC 4-Jul-2018
Challenge to decision not to prosecute senior Intelligence Service officials for alleged offences in connection with his unlawful rendition and mistreatment in Libya. The issue here was whether on the hearing of the application for judicial review, . .
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Updated: 30 July 2021; Ref: scu.517502