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I'm at the back having trouble keeping up but surely Prof Ekins is correct?
If RIPA states that decisions of the tribunal "shall not be subject to appeal or be liable to be questioned in any court' then Parliament quite clearly intended the IPT's decisions to be outside the supervision of the High Court. Regardless of one's views on surveillance ..and we all seem to be pretty keen when the security agencies prevent yet another terrorist attack, if we accept that Parliament makes the laws this verdict is in fact a defeat for the rule of law.

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