The government is determined to prevent ministers and officials from being accountable to the courts for colluding in wrongdoing abroad even if it involves torture, three of the country's most senior judges were warned on Monday.
In a case with "profound and far-reaching implications for the rule of law", British officials would enjoy "impunity from its own courts", the judges were told.
The warnings came from Richard Hermer QC, acting for Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his Moroccan wife, Fatima Bouchar, who were abducted in a joint MI6/CIA operation in 2004 and secretly flown to Tripoli, where Muammar Gaddafi's security forces tortured him.
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