“The Government should seriously consider retaining controversial control orders to keep tabs on suspected terrorists, a think tank said today.”
The Independent, 10th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Coalition ministers are to be warned today that their current plans to overhaul counter-terrorism powers risk tacitly condoning torture and banning a wide range of political and religious groups.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK is operating a ‘parallel, unfair and secretive shadow justice system’ for terror suspects, according to human rights campaigners.”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Control orders which the Secretary of State for the Home Department revoked rather than disclose the evidence on which they were made should have been quashed with effect from the dates they were made, because they were made in violation of the right to a fair trial under art 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A court of appeal ruling today cleared the way for two international terrorism suspects to claim damages for having control orders wrongly imposed on them for three and a half years.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP (No 2) [2010] UKSC 26; [2010] WLR (D) 154
“The public interest in publishing a full report of control order proceedings, identifying the suspected terrorist involved, had to give way to the need to protect the suspected terrorist from the risk of violence in circumstances where he was required to live in a town in which there were considerable community tensions and racist attacks on members of the Muslim community had taken place.”
WLR Daily, 23rd June 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP [2010] UKSC 24; [2010] WLR (D) 149
“Conditions in a control order which were proportionate restrictions upon the right to private and family life could nevertheless be decisive in determining that the overall effect of the order amounted to a deprivation of liberty.”
WLR Daily, 16th June 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The BBC, a terror suspect and two independent film-makers challenged the control order system last night in a broadcast that broke the suspect’s bail conditions.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A terror suspect subject to a control order has won his appeal on the grounds that it breached his human rights.”
BBC News, 16th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Lib Dems abhor them but the coalition has already used the controversial anti-terror measures.”
The Guardian, 23rd May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Those hoping for a major change of direction on human rights by the new government will have answers soon. As we discovered with Labour, the strongest measures a government takes on the protection of human rights are likely to be those it takes in its first few weeks, so what is in the first Queen’s Speech is very important. Five areas may be critical.”
The Guardian, 18th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Control orders involving a curfew lasting 16 hours a day violate fundamental rights, the supreme court was told today as it heard a case attempting to change the use of the controversial measures.”
The Guardian, 5th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dangerous terror suspects are walking the streets as the result of a ruling by the UK Supreme Court, a terrorism watchdog has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ministers were today urged to abandon the use of control orders because they cost too much and have done ‘untold damage to the UK’s international reputation as a nation which prizes the value of fairness’.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A billion-pound property fund was fined £1,000 this week for breaching takeover rules. But a change in the law means similar offences in future could attract unlimited penalties.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th February 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has published his fifth annual report on the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005.”
Home office, 1st February 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The chair of an influential committee of parliamentarians has questioned the independence of the official counter-terrorism watchdog, Lord Carlile, and suggested his term of office should come to an end.”
The Guardian, 3rd February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Abandoning the controversial system of control orders for terrorism suspects could damage UK security, Lord Carlile, the government’s official counter-terrorism watchdog, concluded today.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The High Court has ruled that two former terrorism suspects can sue the government for damages.”
BBC News, 18th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers for a terror suspect set free this week by the home secretary called for the immediate repeal of the entire control order system today, saying his three-and-a-half year ordeal had done him and his family lasting psychological harm.”
The Guardian, 24th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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