Clause 1
Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill
12:30 pm
I simply ask the hon. Gentleman: how would anyone but the DPP know? He said, “Once the DPP has been assured,” but there is no indication of what serious test the DPP would require. The Secretary of State introduced a suggestion of things being done in a secretive and unsatisfactory way. Later in his remarks, he also touched on the fact that the judge might want to ask the DPP privately about certain things. That is not the way that some of us would see justice being properly and duly administered. The hon. Gentleman needs to address the question of how the public will have confidence in what they cannot know.