“The government has been ordered by three senior judges to secure the release of a Pakistani man captured by British special forces and held by the US in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram jail without trial for more than seven years.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ordered the UK to secure the release of a suspected insurgent who remains held without charge by the US in Afghanistan.”
BBC News, 14th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“High Court judges have refused to free a man in Afghanistan after the charity Reprieve sought his release under one of the England’s most ancient laws.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers for a man held in Afghanistan are demanding he is freed under one of the England’s most ancient laws.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ignaoua v Judicial Authority of the Courts of Milan: [2008] EWHC 2619 (Admin); [2008] WLR (D) 340
“Where a designated District Judge had made a decision under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003, an application for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum was precluded by the requirement in s 34 of the Act that such a decision might be questioned only by means of an appeal under Part 1.”
WLR Daily, 31st October 2008
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.
Habeas corpus ultimate remedy
Hilali v. Govenor of Whitemoor Prison and Another
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Where subsequent events had rendered unlawful the continued detention of a person under an extradition order, and the appeal procedure had been exhausted, the appropriate remedy was the issue of a writ of habeas corpus.”
The Times, 6th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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