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Torture is a gross abuse and the cruellest of crimes. The English common law has banned it since the Middle Ages as Lord Bingham confirmed in the House of Lords in A v. Home Secretary [2005] UKHK 71.
The Lords ruled that the prohibition was wide enough even to exclude from legal proceedings in the United Kingdom evidence “which has or may have been procured by torture inflicted, in order to obtain evidence, by officials of a foreign state without the complicity of the British authorities.”
