“Details of anti-terror proposals revealed by the Government in today’s Queen’s Speech did not reveal what is sure to be the most controversial aspect of the new security Bill.”
The Independent, 6th November 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain’s MPs are being urged by one of the world’s leading civil-rights lawyers to resist pressure to extend the 28-day time limit for holding terror suspects.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Britain’s highest court will determine this week whether British and other armed forces in Iraq are entitled to detain terrorist suspects without trial in breach of their human rights.”
The Times, 29th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Lawyers for a British-Iraqi citizen who has been held in Iraq by British forces for three years on suspicion of terrorism will ask the House of Lords today to rule that his detention is unlawful and he should be returned to Britain. Hilal al-Jedda has been held since October 2004 without charge. Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention is a ‘quintessentially British liberty,’ Lord Hoffmann, a law lord, declared in an earlier case.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There is a case for extending the 28-day limit on questioning suspected terrorists, the government’s terror legislation watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 28th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday admitted that there was ‘still some scepticism’ about extending detention without charge beyond its current 28 days among those who had responded to the government’s consultation.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There will have to be a ‘proper debate’ in the country and in the House of Commons before the 28-day detention limit for terrorist suspects could be extended, the Government said.”
The Times, 22nd October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Police need at least 50 days to question some terrorist suspects before charging them, the country’s top officer has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Continued detention of failed asylum-seeker is lawful
Regina (A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“The continued detention, pending deportation, of a failed asylum-seeker after the end of a term of imprisonment because the safety of the public would be at risk and there was a high risk that he would abscond, was not unlawful.”
The Times, 5th September 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.
“Lawyers representing the families of Iraqis detained by British soldiers yesterday accused the Ministry of Defence of suppressing crucial information about the circumstances surrounding their mistreatment, including advice given to senior army officers.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Serious concerns have been raised in a new report into the use of a London court’s cells during the prison overcrowding emergency this summer.”
BBC News, 20th August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family and legal team of a British resident jailed in Spain as a terror suspect claim he is the victim of the Spanish equivalent of Guantánamo Bay. Mohammed Fahsi has been detained for more than 18 months after being arrested by Spanish police who claimed to have struck a blow against a recruiting network that was sending suicide bombers to Iraq.”
The Guardian, 20th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the five British residents London wants freed from the Guantanamo prison camp has already been cleared for release but will not be sent to his native land because of fears he would be abused there, a Pentagon official said on Thursday.”
Reuters, 9th August 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
“The UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay.”
BBC News, 7th August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R(A) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department
“The Secretary of State had not acted unlawfully in continuing to detain pending removal a failed asylum seeker who, having served a sentence of imprisonment for rape, was considered to be a risk to the public and highly likely to abscond. The period of detention was not unreasonable in the circumstances and where the detainee had refused to return voluntarily and no means were available for his enforced return.”
WLR Daily, 30th July 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.
“The police are pressing to be allowed to use mobile holding cells to deal with major protests at defence bases and to set up short-term jails to deal with football hooligans at sports grounds.”
The Guardian, 1st August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There is not enough evidence to support extending the 28-day limit on holding terrorism suspects before charge, a committee of MPs and peers has said.”
BBC News, 30th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A cross-party committee of MPs and peers has opposed government plans to detain terror suspects without charge beyond 28 days.”
BBC News, 29th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Gordon Brown moved yesterday to dominate the terror and security agenda, grabbing a Tory proposal for an integrated single border force and then challenging David Cameron to accept that the scale of the terrorist threat requires an extension of detention without charge to up to 56 days.”
The Guardian, 26th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gordon Brown will today set out counter-terrorism proposals amid reports that they will include the option of doubling the current limit for holding terror suspects from 28 to 56 days.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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