Appeal judges attack control orders
Independent [UK]
08/02/06
The Government has been rebuffed for the second time in the courts over its use of control orders, amounting to virtual house arrest, for terrorist suspects. The ruling by the Court of Appeal plunges the control order regime, the centrepiece of recent anti-terror legislation, deeper into crisis. Five weeks ago, the High Court denounced the controversial restrictions on six terror suspects as a breach of their human rights as they amounted to a deprivation of liberty. John Reid, the Home Secretary, challenged the ruling, but the appeal judges inflicted a second defeat on the Government...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1209753.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
08/02/06
The Government has been rebuffed for the second time in the courts over its use of control orders, amounting to virtual house arrest, for terrorist suspects. The ruling by the Court of Appeal plunges the control order regime, the centrepiece of recent anti-terror legislation, deeper into crisis. Five weeks ago, the High Court denounced the controversial restrictions on six terror suspects as a breach of their human rights as they amounted to a deprivation of liberty. John Reid, the Home Secretary, challenged the ruling, but the appeal judges inflicted a second defeat on the Government...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1209753.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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