Civil liberties groups have expressed their outrage after Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, quietly revived plans to hold inquests into controversial deaths in secret.
Following widespread opposition to proposals to hold sensitive inquests behind closed doors without juries, Mr Straw announced in May he was dropping the measure from the Coroners and Justice Bill.
Campaign group Liberty said however that a similar plan had been quietly added to a Bill reforming coroners' courts in England and Wales, in the shape of a provision allowing for an inquest to be suspended and a secret inquiry held in its place.
If this was allowed to happen...
Secret inquest into the death of a Brazilian electrician.
What Brazilian electrician?
Is this why they want to keep it all secret...
Armed officers placed on routine foot patrol for first time
Police officers armed with submachine guns are to be deployed on routine patrol of Britain's streets for the first time.
This looks like a shoot to kill policy.
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