Judge Questions MI5's Neo-Nazi Evidence

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MI5 neo-Nazi spy: Judge had 'no confidence' in Security Service's account of false evidence

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Mr Justice Chamberlain ordered MI5 to hand over secret documents about the case.

He also said there was a further issue about the "correctness" of new evidence.

Comes four months after BBC revealed MI5 had lied to three courts about a neo- Nazi agent.

The most senior judge in England and Wales , Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr , and the President of the King's Bench Division Dame Victoria Sharp , will now join him to consider what, if any, action should be taken about MI5 's false evidence.

She had complained about MI5 to a specialist court, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ( IPT ), and then sought a judicial review in a third court of an IPT ruling that allowed MI5 to apply NCND. It meant that material confirming X 's agent status has been confined to secret hearings, where she was represented by the tribunal's own barristers and her lawyers were excluded..

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