Lord Bingham
Lord Bingham
Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, KG PC QC FBA, was an eminent British judge and jurist, who served as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and as Senior Law Lord...
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The principles of the common law, standing alone, in my opinion compel the exclusion of third-party torture evidence as unreliable, unfair, offensive to ordinary standards of humanity and decency and incompatible with the principles which should animate a tribunal seeking to administer justice.