He said that inviting "relatively juniorcivilservants" to give evidence to the committee was not "an appropriate manner in which to communicate departmental views".
The problem is that most judges have spent their careers working, in effect, as juniorcivilservants in a culture where accusation and guilt amount to almost the same thing.
But she said there may be some "minor redactions", including the names of some juniorcivilservants and the details of the victims' medical files, which would be a matter for the panel.