Judgment is to be handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice at 9.30 tomorrow morning in the Government’s appeal against the decision to reinstate seven previously secret paragraphs from the High Court’s judgment on the Binyam Mohamed case.

The paragraphs have not yet been published, pending the outcome of the Government’s appeal.

The appeal was heard by the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Queen’s Bench Division at an urgently convened hearing before Christmas.

The seven paragraphs recount the detail of torture and ill-treatment handed out to Mr Mohamed at the hands of US and Pakistani interrogators at the outset of his ordeal, which lasted from April 2002 until he was finally released from Guantanamo Bay in February 2009.

Leigh Day & Co has argued that it is important that this information comes into the public domain for two reasons.  Firstly it corroborates Mr Mohamed’s allegations of the treatment has suffered.  Secondly, it demonstrates that MI5 knew of his ill-treatment before going out to Pakistan to interview him and subsequently assisting the US in his interrogation under torture.  The High Court found that this information comprised the evidence that MI5 were complicit in the torture meted out to Mr Mohamed.

The Government argue that revealing the nature and detail of the ill-treatment will damage Britain’s intelligence sharing relationship with the United States.

A full copy of the Court of Appeal’s judgment is attached to this story.