Ten years after Cory: has the human rights case been lost?
The Committee for the Administration of Justice (CAJ) have just published a long delayed report on a conference held two years ago to review the state of accountability for covert policing for the controversial UK Investigatory Powers Bill, against the background of what went on during the Troubles. They began by noting that the UK national security and crime institutions MI5 the National Crime Agency operate in the province without specific accountability to the local institutions. This is hardly news. …