Restrictions on terror suspect student relaxed by court – BBC News
“Restrictions on a terror suspect who is studying at a London university should be relaxed, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 13th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: terrorism prevention & investigation measures
Terrorism Reviewer: Control Order successor “broadly acceptable” – UK Human Rights Report
“David Anderson QC, the Independent Reviewer of terrorism legislation, has released his first report into the operation of Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, introduced in 2011 with the aim of protecting the public from persons believed to have engaged in terrorism, but who can neither be prosecuted nor deported.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Secretary of State for the Home Department v CC and another – WLR Daily
“Where it was alleged that illegal actions of state agents constituted an abuse of the process of the court, it was not necessary to prove actual knowledge of that illegality for abuse of process to be established. There might be situations where mere recklessness or even negligent conduct could justify a stay on grounds of abuse of process.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Terror suspects arrested in Somaliland lose UK appeal – BBC News
“Two men accused of being part of a ‘prolific extremist network’ have lost their appeal against control orders.”
BBC News, 19th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Secret justice: do we have a compromise? – UK Human Rights Blog
“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
Terror suspect loses court ruling – The Independent
“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
New terror laws could be less effective, warns watchdog – BBC News
“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
Another control order ruled unlawful for breach of right to fair trial – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Court of Appeal has upheld a challenge to a control order on the basis that the person subject to the order (‘the controllee’) had not been given sufficient information about the case against him.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Terrorism control order system ends at midnight – BBC News
“The control order regime restricting the freedoms of terrorism suspects is being abolished from midnight.”
BBC News, 25th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
New powers to deal with suspected terrorists – Home Office
“Suspected terrorists face tough controls under a new law given Royal Assent today (14 December), the Home Secretary said.”
Home Office, 14th December 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Police ‘not ready for new counter-terror powers’ – BBC News
“Counter-terrorism police are not ready for the introduction of new laws to replace controversial control orders on suspects, the BBC understands.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police and MI5 ‘ready for new terror powers’ – BBC News
“The government has insisted that MI5 and the police will be ready to monitor terror suspects under a revamped system as soon as new laws are passed.”
BBC News, 5th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Anti-terrorism powers for a rainy day – UK Human Rights Blog
“Next week will mark the 10th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. Despite the intervening decade, the states threatened by terrorism are still puzzling out the right balance between the powers of security services and the rights of suspected terrorists to due process.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th September 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
