“The deportation of Abu Qatada descended into farce after a potential blunder by the Home Office allowed his lawyers to lodge a last-minute appeal which could extend his stay in Britain and derail attempts to remove him from the country.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 150 criminals, potentially including terrorists, have been secretly given immunity from prosecution or discounted sentences for becoming supergrasses.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The home secretary has ordered that the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada be deported to Jordan at the end of the month.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has opened an ex gratia scheme to make payments to victims of terrorism who were injured in incidents outside the UK on or after 1 January 2002 and who continue to have an ongoing disability as a direct result of the injuries they sustained. From Monday 16 April 2012 victims will be able to apply for a payment under this scheme.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th April 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A British would-be suicide bomber jailed for plotting to blow up an aircraft has had his sentence cut after he assisted prosecutors in the US.”
BBC News, 16th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britons who lived in the UK for at least three years before being injured in a terror attack overseas are eligible for compensation from today, the Government said.”
The Independent, 16th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s legal advisers have secured a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that will see the extradition of five alleged terrorists, prompting the lawyer representing three of them to slam the judgment.”
The Lawyer, 10th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber, has found that five men accused of serious terrorist activities can be extradited from the UK to the US to face trial.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Abu Hamza, the radical cleric who became the face of violent extremism in Britain, can be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges, the European court of human rights has ruled.”
The Guardian, 10th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Secretary of State for the Home Department v CB and another [2012] EWCA Civ 418; [2012] WLR (D) 112
“Where a court made a non-derogating control order in proceedings against a person under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, it had no jurisdiction to order a permanent stay of such proceedings under the Act nor under its case management powers in the Civil Procedure Rules, unless the controlled person requested such a course of action.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, has defended proposals to create a new generation of secret courts in the face of criticism from Nick Clegg and parliament’s human rights committee, saying the plans will make the system more accountable and more conducive to intelligence sharing with other countries.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Government proposals to extend the use of secret hearings in cases where evidence might compromise national security are a radical departure from the UK’s ‘traditions of open justice and fairness’, MPs and peers said today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
AH (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 395; [2012] WLR (D) 106
“In looking to the question whether an asylum seeker, who had been a member of a terrorist organisation and convicted of a crime outside the country of refuge, fell to be excluded from the Refugee Convention pursuant to article 1F(b) and (c) thereof, one had to avoid applying a presumption of individual liability; and in asking whether the crime in question was sufficiently ‘serious’ one also had to set the applicable threshold with care.”
WLR Daily, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has now responded to the Government’s consultation on the proposals set out in their Justice and Security Green Paper Cm 8194. The idea is to extend ‘closed material procedures’ so as to be available in all civil proceedings, i.e. not just in some highly restricted national security contexts such as deportation appeals before SIAC (the Special Immigration Appeals Commission), control orders, and their successor regime known as TPIMs.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A judge who stopped a case brought by two terror suspects in order to save money was in the wrong, the Appeal Court has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ministers are to introduce a new law allowing police and security services to extend their monitoring of the public’s email and social media communications, the Home Office has confirmed.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has allowed the suspected terrorist Al‐Jedda’s appeal against the Home Secretary’s decision to deprive him of his British nationality.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A terror suspect has come a step closer to returning to the UK after winning a Court of Appeal battle against the Government’s decision to strip him of his British nationality.”
The Independent, 29th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A terrorist suspect referred to as ‘BM’ has lost his legal challenge against a terrorism prevention measure imposed on him under new Government legislation to stop him travelling to Pakistan.”
The Independent, 27th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The new system for restricting terror suspects could prove less effective than control orders, the independent reviewer of terror laws has said.”
BBC News, 26th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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