{"id":983,"date":"2009-05-16T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2009-05-16T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T07:33:23","slug":"jack-straw-gives-up-his-plan-for-inquests-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Jack Straw gives up his plan for inquests in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-499\" style=\"width:100px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/jack_straw.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Straw\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Jack Straw<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Jack Straw last night abandoned Labour&#8217;s plans to hold sensitive inquests in secret without juries.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Secretary admitted the Government had too little support to get the law through Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Straw&#8217;s plans to ban relatives and members of the public from inquests where secret intelligence or delicate diplomatic ties were involved had provoked fierce protests.<\/p>\n<p>They were widely expected to be blocked by the House of Lords next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Government has attacked the jury system relentlessly over 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>News report from the Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/may\/15\/jack-straw-drops-secret-inquests\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Straw Jack Straw last night abandoned Labour&#8217;s plans to hold sensitive inquests in secret without juries. The Justice Secretary admitted the Government had too little support to get the law through Parliament. Mr Straw&#8217;s plans to ban relatives and members of the public from inquests where secret intelligence or delicate diplomatic ties were involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}