Mastafa v Her Majesty’s Treasury: [2012] EWHC 3578 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 383
“An appeal brought under section 26 of the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc Act 2010 involved the determination of the appellant’s ‘civil rights’ for the purposes of article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 13th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Prime Minister David Cameron said today he was ‘deeply sorry’ for the extent of state collusion in the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989 following the publication of an independent review.”
The Independent, 12th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Related link: Pat Finucane Report
“A newly-married sister of two convicted terrorists was jailed for a year today for keeping al-Qaeda terrorist material on her mobile phone.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A UK-based terror suspect has failed in his bid to stop his extradition to the US after the European Court of Human Rights threw his case out.”
BBC News, 5th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May has been granted permission to appeal against the decision to allow radical preacher Abu Qatada to stay in the UK, court officials said today.”
The Independent, 5th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The home secretary has launched a legal challenge against the decision to allow the radical preacher Abu Qatada to stay in the UK.”
The Guardian, 3rd December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Criminals who commit a second serious sexual or violent offence will be given automatic life sentences under a new ‘two strikes and you’re out’ law from tomorrow.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An Islamic fanatic linked with Abu Qatada will stay in the UK even though the Supreme Court has ruled he should not be granted asylum.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Irfan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 1471; [2012] WLR (D) 328
“There was nothing disproportionate about a notification requirement of ten years’ duration from the date of release from imprisonment on licence even in the absence of a right of review.”
WLR Daily, 14th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“You may have heard that the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) decided on Tuesday that Abu Qatada, an alleged terrorist who has been detained for the best part of the last seven years awaiting deportation to his native Jordan, cannot be deported. There would be a real risk, ruled SIAC, that he would face a flagrant denial of justice in his ensuing trial.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th November 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Earlier today [13 November], Abu Qatada was released from Long Lartin prison following his successful appeal before the Special Immigration Appeal’s Commission (SIAC). Qatada was challenging the decision to deport him to Jordan, where he faces a retrial for alleged terrorism offences.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th November 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Today, I talk with Carl Gardner, ex government lawyer and author of the Head of Legal blog about the SIAC Abu Qatada decision and the wider implications for our society if we do not continue to uphold the Rule of Law – no matter how inconvenient it may be for politicians.”
Charon QC, 13th November 2012
Source: www.charonqcuklawtour.com
“The home secretary, Theresa May, faces a lengthy legal battle to overturn this week’s ruling by British judges that the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada should not be sent back to Jordan to face trial.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Abu Qatada has won his appeal against the Home Secretary Theresa May’s refusal to revoke the fresh deportation order she issued in his case this April, following assurances she’d received from the Jordanian government about his retrial, if and when he arrives there, on terrorist offences.”
Head of Legal, 12th November 2012
Source: www.headoflegal.com
“The radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada has won his latest legal challenge against being sent back to Jordan where he faces allegations of plotting bomb attacks.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Terror suspect Abu Qatada will find out on Monday if he is to be deported to Jordan to face trial.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An ‘immediate examination’ of the legal aid system has been ordered by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.”
BBC News, 7th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Where, on an application for a writ of habeas corpus, the court was uncertain whether the respondents had sufficient control of the applicant to be able to produce him, it could properly issue the writ so that on the return that question could be determined with fuller knowledge.”
WLR Daily, 31st October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has ruled that the law of habeas corpus should not be used to order the US to return a Pakistani national held in US custody to the UK.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A UK supreme court ruling on the unlawful detention of Yunus Rahmatullah exposes the complicity of Britain with the US.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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