Summary
In the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Laws listened to their protestations and shrugged his shoulders. Although it was wrong in principle for British courts to consider evidence obtained by torture in Britain, he was "quite unable to see that any such principle prohibits the [Home Secretary] from relying . . . on evidence coming into his hands which has been obtained through torture by agencies of other states . . .
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Why We Must Never Tolerate Torture
Torture and England do not mix well. Uniquely in medieval Europe, English common law forbade the extraction of confessions with torture. While poor women from Scotland to Sicily were put on the rack and forced to agree that they were the agents of the devil, English women escaped the Europe...
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