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Yes, Raynor. I'm just old enough to remember the case, because my father discussed it with an uncle - whose son went on to become a barrister (and local councillor) specialising in Human Rights.
That Chuter Ede's insistence that, of law and justice, "If one has to go, let us be quite certain that, for the safety of the State, it must not be justice" was ignored (father and uncle agreed with him) has fuelled my scepticism about our incomparable justice system, as my schoolbooks seemed to deem it. Yet ‘our’ judges swear "to do right/ justice according to law", and are condemned by legal commentators for doing so, on the grounds that none should know better than they that the two not infrequently conflict.