“Two men wanted in Pakistan for alleged terrorist activity have been charged in London under the Terrorism Act as part of what human rights campaigners claim is a secret deal between the two countries.”
The Guardian, 11th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The national security effort focuses too heavily on terrorism at the expense of fighting organised crime, securing energy supplies and tackling other international threats, a report states today.”
The Times, 10th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Four British residents held without charge at the American detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba are to be released, reducing the UK involvement with the camp to just one inmate.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Proposals to extend the limit for pre-charge detention to 42 days are ‘constitutionally illiterate’ as well as dangerous, critics warned yesterday, because proper parliamentary scrutiny would confuse the roles of MPs and judges.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Civil liberties groups were outraged yesterday at suggestions that three British residents soon to be released from Guantanamo Bay will be subjected to control orders.”
The Observer, 9th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Whitehall’s notions of what constitutes national security are out of date, incoherent and need a radical shake-up, a report by the thinktank Demos will say today.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government wants to increase the period police can detain terror suspects without charge to 42 days, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said today.”
The Independent, 6th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A 23-year-old former Heathrow shop assistant who called herself the ‘lyrical terrorist’ and scrawled her extremist thoughts on till receipts has been handed a nine-month suspended jail sentence.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Young Muslims are being convicted of thought crimes and branded as terrorists for life, the country’s most prominent Islamic leader has told The Times.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“MPs will be given a vote on whether to trigger emergency powers that would allow terrorist suspects to be held beyond 28 days, under plans to be announced by the Home Secretary within days.”
The Times, 6th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF [2007] EWHC 2828 (Admin)
“A judge who decided issues arising on a hearing under s 3(10) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 adversely to either party was not for that reason disqualified by prejudgment from adjudicating in subsequent proceedings under the 2005 Act to which the respondent was a party.”
WLR Daily, 3rd December 2007
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.
“Companies should review everything from evacuation plans to staff vetting and corporate communications if they want to reduce their vulnerability to homegrown terrorism, a leading think-tank said on Monday.”
Reuters, 3rd December 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
“A blind calypso musician and his band who were escorted off a plane as suspected terrorists after a passenger claimed to have seen him reading a newspaper are suing Ryanair for about £1,000 each.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ward v Police Service of Northern Ireland [2007] UKHL 50
“On an application by the police for an extension of the period of detention of a person who was detained under the Terrorism Act 2000, the judge’s power under para 33(3) of Sch 8 to the Act to exclude the detainee and his legal representatives from any part of the hearing also included the power to refuse to disclose to them anything that took place during the period of their exclusion.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Ward v Police Service of Northern Ireland
House of Lords
“The power to exclude a detainee and his legal representatives from an application under the Terrorism Act 2000 to extend the period of detention, included the power not to inform them of anything that took place during their exclusion.”
The Times, 22nd November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“The director of public prosecutions has blown a hole in the government’s plans to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects, by questioning whether courts would allow the police to use the extra time. Sir Ken Macdonald told MPs that he was satisfied with the current 28-day limit, which ‘has suited us nicely’, and argued that the response to terrorism should be ‘proportionate and grounded’.”
The Guardian, 22nd November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gordon Brown’s controversial proposals to extend the time a terror suspect can be held before charge were condemned today by the former Attorney General.”
The Times, 21st November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The ‘reluctant’ fifth bomber in the failed July 21 suicide attacks on London was jailed yesterday for 33 years.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Counter-terrorism officials are rethinking their approach to tackling the radicalisation of Muslim youth, abandoning what they admit has been offensive and inappropriate language. They say the term ‘war on terror’ will no longer be heard from ministers. Instead, they will use less emotive language, emphasising the criminal nature of the plots and conspiracies. The government in future, they add, will talk of a ‘struggle’ against extremist ideology, rather than a ‘battle’.”
The Guardian, 20th Novemeber 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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