[A-List] "So why was Lord Hutton chosen? "

["Chris Burford" <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Worth digging Roy Hattersley's article of July 28 up from the archives

"The idea that judges can clear their minds of preconceptions is
clearly nonsense. Yet no one has bothered even to speculate what Lord
Hutton's preconceptions might be. Presumably the Department of
Constitutional Affairs has a good idea."

"he takes a stern view about the duty of public servants to obey
strict rules of conduct. Lord Hutton voted to dismiss the appeal of
Private Lee Clegg - the paratrooper who shot a joyrider at a Northern
Ireland checkpoint. And he subscribed to the ruling that David Shayler
could not legitimately claim that revealing the secrets of MI5 was in
the public interest. "


http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1007043,00.html

The only thing Roy Hattersley got wrong was that the report would also
be judiciously balanced and would not cause a sensation.

I wonder if he has any further thoughts.

Chris Burford