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Justice Secretary Chris Grayling recently wrote some things in the Daily Mail that were entirely factually incorrect .

He said that not all judges in the European Court of Human Rights are "legally qualified". They all hold legal qualifications.

Mr Grayling does not.

He also said that the right not to be tortured may be subject to societal caveats. He was wrong about that too.

The Mail had to apologise.

And it seems like people keep having to intervene in Chris Grayling’s affairs because he keeps getting things wrong.

There is so much more that is not on this list (his voting record on benefits and disability allowance, his belief about academy schools and more) but here’s a little of what he thinks and why he’s wrong.

1. We should build a ‘super-prison’ for children

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Under plans announced by Grayling, children as young as 12 should be put in a jail housing 300 boys, a handful of girls and a unit for babies, you know, just in case.

In this "secure college" to be run by a private company, the use of force by staff would be allowed (under a bill found to be unlawful by a court of appeal).

It has been widely criticised, for the lack of educational provision, for risk of physical harm to inhabitants and because IT’S A 'SUPER-PRISON' FOR CHILDREN.

2. Cutting criminal legal aid is ok

Grayling wants to cut the budget for those unable to afford proper legal representation by £220 million. The Ministry of Justice consultation process, the High Court ruled, was “so unfair that it was illegal”. So he’s wrong.

People from all backgrounds should have full access to legal representation and a fair hearing, no matter what the charge is. Innocent until proven guilty. Remember that?

3. There is no crisis in the prison system

Prison suicides are increasing - more than six people a month are taking their own lives in prison - violence in some prisons have risen by up to 60%, inmates are sometimes being kept three in a cell.

A large number of experts, prison officers, politicians and academics all say that the prison system is in crisis.

Mr Grayling’s view? There is "not a crisis in our prisons".

4. The European Court of Human Rights isn’t good for Britain

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Grayling wants to “limit the use of Human Rights laws to the most serious cases. They will no longer apply in trivial cases” and remove any European “intervention”.

A new Bill of Rights unique to the UK will leave the European Convention of Human Rights as an "advisory" document.

Perhaps most interestingly, the bill would make sure “British Armed forces overseas are not subject to persistent human rights claims”. So human rights abuses are ok if it’s someone in uniform?

Thinking about it the other way round, if a soldier is under-equipped and sent to their death, says human rights lawyer Shoaib M Khan, their families will have no right to seek a legal resolution in relation to any human rights abuses by the UK government.

5. Judges can be told what to do

Grayling wanted to make it more difficult to challenge government decisions in court by removing a judge’s discretion about whether they hear judicial review applications

A former lord chief justice, Lord Woolf, said that these proposals would create an “elective dictatorship” and “it’s dangerous to go down the line of telling the judges what they have to do.”

6. Listening to prisoners’ phone calls with MPs is only ‘a breach of protocol’

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Phone calls, meant to be confidential, between prisoners and at least 32 current MPs - or staff working for them - have been recorded by prison staff and in some cases listened to.

Mt Grayling apologised, said procedures had been tightened and said it was only “a breach of protocol”.

“It’s not,” Juliet Lyon of the Prison Reform Trust told the Guardian. “It is a fundamental breach of democratic rights and justice.”

7. Trolling is equivalent to 'online terrorism'

When Chris Grayling announced that he was quadrupling the maximum prison sentence for internet trolls, Chloe Madeley, daughter of Richard and Judy, said that online trolling was “online terrorism”, with the backing and support of Mr Grayling.

Yes, it’s horrible, yes it could be equated to a “baying cybermob”, yes it should be illegal and yes attempts should be made to curtail it (though dealing with a symptom with harder sentences rather than tackling the root cause is questionable), but 99% of online trolling is not terrorism. It just isn’t.

Terrorism is a threat "made for the purposes of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause" and "they use violence or the threat of violence as a means of publicising their causes".

While it's offensive and illegal, the idea that these trolls have thought it through enough to have an "ideological cause" is giving them too much credit.

8. Secret courts are perfectly fine and justified

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The government’s Justice and Security Bill allows certain court cases to be conducted in secret. Around 700 figures from the legal profession said it was “dangerous and unnecessary” and “fatally undermine[s]” fairness of court hearings. The signatories included Nicholas Vineall QC, former chairman of the Conservative Lawyers’ Association.

It’s now law.

In the first criminal case to be held in secret, Grayling had confidence that justice would win out.

"In truth, this bill would allow huge swaths of material currently put before the courts and the public to be suppressed," wrote Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty.

And some fear that the Bill could be used to go even further.

“Court records could be kept secret forever. Secret courts could be extended to undercover police officers, deaths of suspects in custody and deaths in the military,” the NUJ said.