ABSTRACT
The main connection between terrorist organisations and the legal profession occurs at solicitor level, because it is a solicitor's role to deal with arrested persons from the moment they are arrested until they appear in court, when they are formally represented by barristers. This is loosely the arrangement, and it is the solicitor-client relationship that is exploited by terrorists. When a terrorist suspect is arrested, police are empowered by emergency legislation to question that person over a seven-day period. RUC interrogators have often used that period to extract statements of guilt and information about the arrested persons accomplices, terrorist structures and plans. The dirty war is to be found in such events as secret burials, the use of Military Reconnaissance Force squads, the manipulation of those who become informers and inevitably the victims, the development of the sophisticated technology of surveillance, and the manner in which the public is so frequently deceived about the true nature of the conflict.
