Recommendation 26

Restrictions and delays on access to a lawyer and on letting a person’s loved ones know where they are constitute serious impediments to accessing basic rights for a person detained without charge. Whilst such restrictions may be proportionate if necessary for imperative reasons of national security, such as to prevent immediate serious harm to another person, the case is less compelling where the objective is solely asset recovery. Paragraphs 9(4) and (5) of Schedule 3 should be deleted from the Bill. (Paragraph 96) The principle of open justice & the power to exclude public from proceedings