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 issue is one of constitutional principle, whether evidence obtained by torturing another human being may lawfully be admitted against a party to proceedings in a British court, irrespective of where, or by whom, or on whose authority the torture was inflicted. To that question I would give a very clear negative answer.
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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.