Top U.K. Judge Warns Against Secret Intelligence Courts
But they work so wonderfully shadowy in the U.S.!
The UK's most senior judge has warned that the legal profession will be "troubled" by aspects of plans to allow courts to examine secret intelligence in private.
MPs backed the plans, which apply to civil hearings, on Monday.
But Lord Neuberger told BBC Radio 4's Law In Action cases might occur where "one party doesn't know what the other party is putting before the judge".
Any lawyer "worth his or her salt" would have concerns, he added.
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