“The government’s definition of what constitutes complicity in torture has no basis in law, parliament’s joint committee on human rights warns today in a hard-hitting attack on its attitude towards the abuse of terrorism suspects.”
The Guardian, 25th March 2010
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“Human rights groups have joined forces with a group of British MPs to campaign for an independent inquiry into the UK’s role in torture and rendition during the so-called war on terror.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2010
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“The government is locked in a serious and bitter dispute with the parliamentary body set up to monitor MI5 and MI6 over the guidelines covering the torture and abuse of detainees held abroad, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2010
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“The role of ministers in sanctioning activities by security and intelligence officers abroad which could be unlawful if carried out in Britain will be highlighted in guidelines published for the first time tomorrow, according to Whitehall officials.”
The Guardian, 17th March 2010
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“There was a growing clamour tonight for the reform and even abolition of the government’s intelligence and security committee after senior appeal court judges concluded that the security services they are supposed to scrutinise on behalf of the prime minister were able to get away with ‘a dubious record’ on torture.”
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The Guardian, 26th February 2010
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“Ministers are to face a legal challenge over the use of secret guidance given to members of the secret services when interrogating prisoners abroad. Lawyers and human-rights groups claim the unpublished codes of practice, issued in 2002 and 2004, allowed officers working for MI5 and MI6 to collude in torture. Reprieve, which represents Binyam Mohamed and several other former Guantanamo Bay detainees, is to go to court to force the Government to disclose what it describes as Britain’s ‘torture policy’.”
The Independent, 24th February 2010
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“As a general principle, the principles of freedom of expression, democratic accountability and the rule of law were integral to the principle of open justice, so that, where litigation had occurred and judgment given, any disapplication of the open justice principle (which included the ordinary right of all the parties to the litigation to know the reasons for the court’s decision) had to be rigidly contained. It should be rare for the court to order that any part of the reasoning in its judgment which had lead it to its conclusion should be redacted, and any such order should be made only in extreme cases.”
WLR Daily, 11th February 2010
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“Legal defeat plunges Security Service into crisis over torture evidence, and it is revealed that judge removed damning verdict after Foreign Office QC’s plea.”
The Guardian, 1oth February 2010
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“MI5 failed to alert America to intelligence highlighting the extremist links of the Detroit plane bomber because of concerns about breaching his human rights and privacy.”
The Times, 10th January 2010
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“A record rise in the number of complaints against MI5 and other bodies authorised to spy on the public is being investigated by judges appointed to oversee the use of surveillance powers in Britain.”
The Independent, 6th January 2010
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“Ministers have agreed to the release of secret documents that could prove MI5 agents were present during the torture of a British resident held by the US government for eight years.”
The Independent, 21st December 2009
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“The Foreign Office has made a partial climbdown in its legal bid to suppress intelligence material relating to a British resident who claims he was tortured by American security services.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2009
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“A group of MPs is suing the CIA in the American courts in an attempt to force the agency to hand over information about Britain’s secret involvement in its extraordinary rendition programme.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2009
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“Lawyers for the Foreign Secretary launched an extraordinary attack yesterday on High Court judges who want to disclose intelligence material relating to allegations of torture involving the CIA.”
The Times, 15th December 2009
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“Three of England’s most senior judges are to hear an appeal by the government against letting the public know about allegations of torture.”
BBC News, 14th December 2009
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“Judges rule battle to publish book must be pursued in secretive investigatory powers tribunal.”
The Guardian, 9th December 2009
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R (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service [2009] UKSC 12; [2009] WLR (D) 356
“Jurisdiction to hear a claim against the intelligence services for a violation of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by art 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was granted exclusively to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”) by s 65(2)(a) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Therefore the High Court had no jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review brought by a former member of the Security Service in respect of a refusal of permission to publish a book about his work with the service.”
WLR Daily, 9th December 2009
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Al Rawi and others v Security Service and others [2009] EWHC 2959 (QB); [2009] WLR (D) 335
It could be lawful and proper for a court to order that a closed material procedure (avoiding disclosure of material contrary to the public interest otherwise than to special advocates) be adopted in a civil claim for damages.
WLR Daily, 19th November 2009
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“A top Foreign Office official has accused high court judges of damaging Britain’s national security by insisting that CIA evidence of British involvement in torture must be revealed.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2009
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