Sentence examples for material procedure in from inspiring English sources

The fact that the government has applied for the use of closed material procedure in a court case in which it is a defendant could itself be kept secret.

"The right to know the evidence given by the other side is such a fundamental principle of natural justice, it can never be fairer to adopt a closed material procedure in order to determine a claim, even if the alternative is that the claim will be struck out".

In the Sarkandi case, the judge said a judge in a previous case had made observations that "do not acknowledge as fully as they might the difficulties faced by special advocates in testing evidence that emerges in the closed material procedure, in circumstances where they cannot seek the instructions of the claimants on that evidence".

Mr Clegg has broken ranks over a previously announced plan to extend the system of "closed material procedures" in which evidence is heard privately, without the defendant present.

"It would permit the extension of closed material procedures, in which claimants and their lawyers are excluded from court and refused sight of government evidence, to any civil claim, whenever a minister considers that openness is against the 'public interest'.

We have legislated, through the Justice and Security Act, to allow the use of closed material procedures in some civil cases so the courts can provide justice where sensitive information relating to national security is central to the case.

The formal request for a closed material procedure (CMP) in the case of Terence McCafferty, whose release on licence was revoked, is the third time in recent weeks that ministers have resorted to legal powers contained in the new Justice and Security Act in Northern Ireland cases.

The decision to hold what is known as a "closed material procedure" (CMP) – in which claimants are prevented from discovering the security evidence against them – was made after lawyers for the Treasury urged the justices to read a secret judgment from a lower court.

It is a little technical, and doesn't have the "big bang" political impact of the closed materials procedures in the other parts of the bill, but if it passes as drafted section 13 will devastate attempts to discover just how mixed up the UK is in the darkest parts of the "war on terror".

Kahn asked the under-secretary of state for justice "on how many occasions a closed material procedure has been used in an employment tribunal in each of the last 10 years".

Ministers have been engulfed in controversy for more than a year over their plans to extend so-called "closed material procedures" (CMPs), in which cases are heard entirely in private, to civil law.