Lawyers to resign in protest at Britain's anti-terror legislation
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Lawyers representing suspects detained under Britain's anti-terrorism law are to resign in protest against the legislation, a few days after Britain's highest court described the law as illegal, newspapers reported.
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The Home Secretary is to respond to a ruling that holding foreign terror suspects without trial breaches human rights laws.
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Law Lords will consider whether the government's controversial anti-terror measures breach human rights.
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Islamabad, Oct 16. (PTI): A senior opposition lawmaker in Pakistan&#39;s National Assembly resigned on Friday to protest the approval of a bill authorising President Pervez Musharraf to continue as President and
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Justice Secretary Jack Straw urges lawyers to help bring down the legal aid bill.
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A British parliamentary committee accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to do more to prosecute suspects instead.
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Britain's highest court on Thursday harshly condemned one of the most hotly disputed elements of the country's anti-terrorist strategy &#151; a law allowing some foreign suspects to be locked up indefinitely with no charge.
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The Livingston MP Jim Devine is to step down from his government post in protest over Trident nuclear.
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The British government launched a legal bid on Thursday to protect the use of anti-terrorism powers which ministers admit are flawed but argue are still vital for the nation's security.
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A Muslim lawyer slapped one of the country's biggest law firms with a discrimination suit last week, saying it cut his work load and then fired him in response to the Sept.
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The law lords are set to rule on whether controversial counter-terrorism control orders breach human rights.
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The length and cost of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, which begins its final hearings this week, has been condemned by the leading lawyers involved, who have earned millions of pounds from it.
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More lawyers may follow the lead of a top QC who has resigned following the Law Lordsâ damning verdict on the Governmentâs anti-terror laws, a civil rights group claimed today.
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Nine law lords have ruled that legislation allowing foreign nationals suspected of terrorism to be locked up indefinitely and without trial, contravenes human rights laws.
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PM attempts to reaffirm commitment to civil liberties in face of criticism over anti-terror legislation.
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Home Secretary David Blunkett has signalled that a third term Labour government would impose sweeping new anti-terror laws amid fears of an al Qaida attack on Britain.
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LONDON, England -- Two court-appointed lawyers for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have asked to be dismissed from his case.