Secret justice
Sir, —Your editorial of September 6 on “Secret Justice” is very timely but I think the exposition could have been taken farther. As long as one has a free, democratically elected government with open channels of inquiry accessible to every citi;zen, the danger of suppressing the names of accused persons is minimal, although obtaining information could become cumbersome and time-consuming. But should the State find its way into the hands of a dictator, beneficent or despotic (and there is never a guarantee that it will not), people could be arrested and-not tried at all, and be condemned tn oblivion without recourse to
justice by their families, friends or society. Let us in New Zealand not be misled by Dr Finlay’s dulcet doubletalk about protecting the acctised, as we follow him supinely into a future system of Kafkaesque or Soviet injustice.—Yours, etc., S. WESTERMANN. September 6, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33942, 8 September 1975, Page 12
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