If it’s wrong elsewhere, why is it OK here?

IMAGINE the uproar if in China or Zimbabwe, for example, government opponents were convicted in a non-jury court basically on the word of a senior police officer relying on so-called intelligence.

Imagine the further howls of outrage from our Government and the opposition parties on discovering that during the trial, the secret police were allowed to show judges secret files kept from the defence and the public?

They would condemn such injustice, call for an end to such courts and the release of those convicted.