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I spent a number of years as a deputy High Court judge dealing almost entirely with judicial review cases. A large number of them were dealt with by very carefully prepared paper applications, of which the judge dealing with them could manage 12 or more in a day. This process can be made very effective. If that sort of process were created, it would work, but there must be some legal advice to people—at least of a rudimentary and informative kind, in a language that they understand. It may be done by telephone, as long as it is properly managed. In an accelerated detention process, an independent reviewer ought to be appointed—I would say this, wouldn’t I?—who could report to Parliament on a regular basis, naming and shaming as independent reviewers do, as I used to do long ago and as my noble friend Lord Anderson did so effectively after he took over from me as Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, and as the current independent reviewer does.