Ulster finds her Husak
Sir: Under the Northern Ireland Special Powers Act, British citizens in Ulster can be arrested without warrant, denied recourse to a court of law, denied claim to a trial by jury, denied access to legal advice when incarcerated without trial, and amongst other things, flogged. If a person imprisoned without trial dies while incarcerated, the Ulster Minister of Home Affairs can refuse the right of inquest, unlike the rest of Britain.
In 1963 the South African Minister of Justice, now the Prime Minister, introduced a new Coercion Bill by saying that he 'would be willing to exchange all the legis- lation of that sort for one clause of the Northern Ireland Special Powers Act.'
I suggest such powers be removed from a government obviously unfit to govern.
K. S. Walsh Brennan Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Shef- field
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