Question
the protection of a fair trial under the ECHR, art 6(1) is engaged where there is a 'determination of a person's civil rights and obligations'. In Re MB, it was accepted that a control order would affect such rights and therefore that the ECHR, art 6 had been engaged. A majority of the House of Lords held that the involvement of a special advocate was, in principle, capable of assuaging any disadvantage flowing from non-disclosure, and that the regime was therefore not in breach of the ECHR, art [...].