Law chief attacks terror Bill (UK)

March 05, 2005
By David Charter
The most senior law lord may not even have been consulted on the plans before their publication


PLANS for tough new anti- terrorism measures were thrown into fresh turmoil yesterday when it was disclosed that Britain’s most senior law lord has serious concerns about control orders. <snip>

The revelations came as a committee of MPs and peers said that a government compromise making judges responsible for house arrest control orders still seemed to breach human rights laws.

Changes by Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, to limit his power to issue home detention control orders may not go far enough, the all-party Joint Committee on Human Rights said. Mr Clarke wants to retain the right of the Home Secretary to make any kind of control order banning terrorist suspects from using the phone or internet, or imposing a curfew, without the need for a charge or trial.

Until now judicial opposition has come from former senior judges in the House of Lords. But Lord Ackner, a former law lord, told The World at One on BBC Radio 4: “They (judges) will be worried if they are asked merely to rubber stamp what the executive has decided. <snip>

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1511916,00.html

If ya don't like someone, just disappear them or lock em up. That's the New Anglo-American Way.