Surveillance

The question of Security Service surveillance of the tutorial or lecture room is not an important issue in the Devon Biggs case. But being a reasonably prominent student figure—he did run for executive in 1969 and no picture or biography was supplied to Salient— he would still have his old student contacts and friends. The problem of a student, being recruited by the Security Service, after completing his degree, using his old contacts and friends to obtain information on "subversives" is obvious.

The whole information-gathering apparatus is antithetical to a democratic state, as is the appeal system, which denies the complainant the right of challenge and cross-examination, a manifest right in the law courts of a Democratic Society.