Scotland protects civil liberties
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The SNP welcomes a report which found civil liberties are better protected in Scotland than the rest of the UK.
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Britain&#39;s Law Lords has ruled that detaining terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial violates their civil rights under the European Convention... Britain&#39;s highest court has ruled in favor of nine
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (17/12/04) - Britainâs House of Lords ruled yesterday that the indefinite detention of foreign terrorism suspects was incompatible with the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), in a decision Human
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Â· Civil liberties activists condemn proposalÂ· Conservatives back other counter-terror measures
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Laws abolishing 800 years of feudal property rights come into force in Scotland.
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Legislation aimed at protecting people from anti-social behaviour in Northern Ireland comes into force.
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VICTORIA (CP) - The provincial government passed a bill Tuesday aimed at protecting British Columbia residents from the long arm of the USA Patriot Act.
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By Leader  EDINBURGH MP Nigel Griffiths is right to call for more control by website operators like YouTube over material which encourages criminal behaviour, but politicians should resist introducing formal measures to clamp down on such sites.
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Astana. November 10. KAZINFORM. Medical chiefs have urged Scottish ministers to take the lead in the UK and ban smoking in public places.
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Security checks, landscaping and cleaning are carried out at the Scottish Parliament in preparation for its opening.
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Gordon Brown pledges not to put civil liberties at risk over his plans to introduce new anti-terror laws.
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First Minister Alex Salmond says he is prepared to investigate whether rendition flights landed in Scotland.
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Detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UKâs highest court ruled on Thursday. In a blow to the governmentâs anti-terror measures, the House of Lords ruled by an
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Matthew Tempest and agencies Tuesday January 30, 2007 Guardian Unlimited The Irish and British prime ministers, Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair, in St Andrews, Scotland, where politicians negotiated a power-sharing ...Comment
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Moves to crack down on serious crime are expected to spark a political row over the powers of Holyrood.
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The UK government&#39;s indefinite detention of foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaches European human rights laws, the country&#39;s top court ruled, dealing a blow to the government&#39;s security policy.
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By George Jones, Political Editor and Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor. The law lords ruled by an eight to one majority that the indefinite detention of foreign suspects without charge or trial in Belmarsh prison breached their human rights.