That the recollections of these young people (made under intense peer pressure and with none of the safeguards consistent with fundamental fairness) were relevant while records of the accuser's email and social media postings were not made a mockery of the very term.

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The Conservative peer had come under pressure in the Lords to defend rises in rail ticket prices.

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