The shadow security minister Baroness Neville-Jones said: "It is very worrying that, following an investigation based on strong intelligence into what the prime minister described as a serious terrorist plot, the police have not been able to present sufficient evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service on which it could lay charges against any of the 12 arrested".
At the trial, when the prosecution showed charts on which eyewitnesses to the shooting made marks to indicate where they had stood when they saw what they saw, I had had trouble imagining the scene, and now that I was on the spot it was not much clearer.
Preska then proceeded in inquiring with the prosecution and defense on which parts of the sentencing would remain redacted after it was over.
Lawyers also pointed out how the prosecution's key witnesses withdrew allegations on which the prosecution's case was founded.
They say that the British right to a fair trial means that the defence as well as the prosecution must have access to all material on which the prosecution relies as well as any material that might assist their defence: "The prohibition on using intercept evidence is consistent with the right to a fair trial because neither the defence nor the prosecution can rely on intercept material," they say.
The judge said evidence from the federal prosecuting agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on which the prosecution case was built, was "useless and dubious material" since its authenticity could not be verified.
Politkovskaya's route home: in order to demonstrate that Ibragim had waited as a lookout for Politkovskaya's car, the prosecution produced a map on which they charted her route home from the supermarket.
By requiring the DPP to provide guidelines as to the grounds on which prosecution will or will not take place, the law lords have essentially invited the DPP to change the law.
Lady Andrews kicked off Wednesday night's debate by noting one of the very few occasions on which a successful prosecution was brought for blasphemy, when a Mr Haslam described the Old Testament as "wretched stuff" and "a disgrace to orangutans".
Officers feared that documents on which a prosecution for corporate manslaughter would have to be based would be barred from use.
