Video: Amnesty International describes 'threat' of Government's Justice and Security Bill Amnesty International's critical 50-page report comes before the Justice and Security Bill, which contains the measures for more "closed material procedures," is debated in the House of Lords over the next few weeks. The Government has said it is wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on settling claims, some of which may have no merit, because it is unable to contest them as the evidence it would wish to produce is so secret that it cannot be revealed in an open court. A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The point Amnesty have missed is that currently no one, not the claimant, not their lawyers, nor the judge, can take into account or rely on national security-sensitive evidence. The result is that cases collapse and we never get to the bottom of serious allegations made against the state. The Justice and Security Bill will fix this problem by allowing the national security evidence which is excluded under current rules to be heard in a closed procedure.