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He added: "It did mean that we actually had to skew the conduct of operations to take account of the sorts of criticisms that we'd been subject to but been unable to counter because of what we couldn't say about forthcoming cases." But in remarks going beyond the world of policing, he appeared to question the wider basis for the contempt laws themselves. "There seems to be a presumption that juries are not capable with dealing with the information that's put before them, incapable of deciding whether something is probative or prejudicial to a defendant," he said.