Release Binyam torture data – MP – BBC News
“The US government should urgently release details about the treatment of a British resident who alleges he was tortured, a senior Labour MP has said.”
BBC News, 24th February 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: disclosure
R (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service – WLR Daily
R (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service [2009] EWCA Civ 24; [2009] WLR (D) 63
“The Administrative Court did not have jurisdiction to entertain a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where the matters brought up were within the purview of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.”
WLR Daily, 19th February 2009
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Miliband faces new ‘torture cover-up’ storm – The Guardian
“David Miliband, the foreign secretary, was last night facing fresh pressure over torture allegations after it was revealed that his officials asked the US for help in suppressing crucial evidence.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Foreign Office link to torture cover-up – The Guardian
“The Foreign Office (FCO) solicited the letter from the US State Department that forced British judges to block the disclosure of CIA files documenting the torture of a British resident held in Guantánamo Bay, the Observer can reveal.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act – draft regulations – Ministry of Justice
“A consultation on draft regulations made under section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 regarding the disclosure of information from the Department of Work and Pensions and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in order to facilitate the assessment of a defendant’s financial eligibility for legal aid at the magistrates’ court.”
Ministry of Justice, 12th February 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (4) – WLR Daily
“A novel issue, the striking of a balance between the public interest in national security and the public interest in open justice, the rule of law and democratic accountability, lay at the heart of the court’s consideration of whether to restore passages, summarising information relating to an arguable case of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the claimant, which had been redacted from the court’s first open judgment at the request of the Foreign Secretary on grounds of national security. The rule of law required that the determination of where the balance lay was ultimately for the decision of the court.”
WLR Daily, 5th February 2009
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Miliband defends ‘torture’ row documents gag – The Independent
“Foreign Secretary David Miliband today defended the non-disclosure of US intelligence after a furious row erupted between the British courts and the American administration over the Binyam Mohamed case.”
The Independent, 5th February 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
David Miliband to make statement on Binyam Mohamed ‘torture cover up’ – The Times
“David Miliband will make a statement to the House of Commons today on the alleged cover-up of the torture of Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident being held at Guantanamo Bay.”
The Times, 5th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
UK judges accuse Obama Administration of suppressing torture claim – The Times
“The US has threatened to withhold intelligence from the UK if evidence of the alleged torture of a British resident held at Guantánamo Bay is made public. ”
The Times, 5th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
US threats mean evidence of British resident’s Guantánamo torture must stay secret, judges rule – The Guardian
“Evidence of how a British resident held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was tortured, and what MI5 knew about it, must remain secret because of serious threats the US has made against the UK, the high court ruled today (4 February).”
The Guardian, 4th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Attorney urged to hand over torture evidence – The Guardian
“The attorney general, Lady Scotland, must hand over to the director of public prosecutions detailed allegations of criminal wrongdoing by MI5 and the CIA concerning the treatment of a British resident held at Guantánamo Bay, his lawyer said yesterday. The demand comes in a 26-page letter, seen by the Guardian, sent to the attorney by Clive Stafford Smith, director of the legal charity Reprieve and the lawyer representing Binyam Mohamed.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Telco faces £2m e-disclosure bill after failing to agree search words – OUT-LAW.com
“A company’s £2 million trawl through documents for a court case will have to be redone because lawyers had not agreed the terms of the search, the High Court has said. The ruling could change the way companies conduct disclosure, said one expert.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Practice Direction: Enforcement of Children Act 1989 contact orders: disclosure of information to officers of the national probation service – WLR Daily
“In order to ensure that an officer of the Service or a Welsh family proceedings officer would not be in contempt of court by virtue of disclosing information to an officer of the National Probation Service when a request was made under s 11L(5) or s 11M of the Children Act 1989 the court should give leave to the officer to make such disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 7th November 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Warner v Verfides (a Firm) – Times Law Reports
Chancery Division
“Documents created by one party and sent to another did not necessarily cease to be correspondence, to which the privacy provisions of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights could apply, when they were received by the latter.”
The Times, 6th November 2008
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McDonald v HM Advocate – Times Law Reports
Privy Council
“The refusal by the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland to receive a devolution minute was the determination of an issue sufficient to give jurisdiction to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to hear an appeal.”
The Times, 5th November 2008
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Warner v Verfides (Hafner and another intervening) – WLR Daily
Warner v Verfides (Hafner and another intervening) [2008] EWHC 2609 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 338
“There was no reason why documents created by one party and sent to another should cease to be “correspondence” on their receipt by the latter. In the case of business correspondence, it could still engage the right to respect for private life under art 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 31st October 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF: Same v AM; Same v AN; Same v AE – Times Law Reports
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF: Same v AM; Same v AN; Same v AE
Court of Appeal
“While as much information as possible, without imperilling national security, should be disclosed to a person subject to a control order, it was arguable that there was no irreducible minimum the nondisclosure of which would automatically make a trial unfair.”
The Times, 29th October 2008
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R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (3) – WLR Daily
“In the light of the stance taken by the US government that it would reconsider the intelligence relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom if the court were to make the order sought by the claimant, the appropriate course was to stay proceedings until after the outcome of the forthcoming hearing in the US Federal District Court, in the hope that a means would be found under the United States’ own judicial procedures of securing disclosure of the potentially exculpatory documents to the claimant’s US lawyers and thereby bringing the matter to an early and just resolution.”
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2008
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Court attacks US refusal to disclose torture evidence – The Guardian
“The high court yesterday condemned as ‘deeply disturbing’ a refusal by the US to disclose evidence that could prove a British resident held at Guantánamo Bay was tortured before confessing to terrorism offences.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Iraq dossier memos ‘must be released’ – Daily Telegraph
“Memos and emails showing how the Government’s Iraq war dossier was ‘sexed up’ must be released, the information commissioner has ordered.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
