Uproar at plan to hold inquests in secret /The Times, 12 August 2008

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4510259.ece

Inquests that are deemed a risk to national security by the Government would be held in secret in future under proposed powers to come before the House of Lords this autumn.

The provisions, under a clause in the Counter-Terrorism Bill, allow the Home Secretary to stop a jury being summoned, replace the coroner with a government appointee and bar the public from inquests if it is deemed to be in the public interest.