Lockerbie evidence

Precedent of a dangerous kind is at risk of being set in Scots law. As The Herald reveals today, the Crown Office will ask judges to replace the defence team representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi with security-vetted special advocates for the court hearing next week to decide whether a document thought to contain vital information about the timer that detonated the Lockerbie bomb should be made public. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission concluded that failure to disclose the document during the original trial could constitute a miscarriage of justice.