Clarke Defiant over Law Lords&#39; Ruling on Detainees
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The new Home Secretary remained defiant today in the face of a Law Lords ruling which outlawed his predecessorâs emergency anti-terror measures.
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Independent reviewer of counter-terrorism law, Lord Carlile, says politicians should hand over power to decide about maximum detention periods.
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Nine foreign terror suspects held without charge or trial in Britain&#39;s jails on Monday launched a challenge in the House of Lords, the upper part of parliament, against their indefinite detention by the government.
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The House of Lords on Wednesday rejected claims by families of people killed in Iraq that European human rights law applied to the conduct of British troops throughout the country.
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The detention without trial of some terrorist suspects is a "legitimate and appropriate response" to the post-Sept. 11 threat from international terrorism, the government's top lawyer argued Wednesday before Britain's highest court.
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Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects  have the constitutional right to pursue lawsuits challenging  their imprisonment, a federal judge ruled on Monday in a defeat  for the Bush administration that struck down how the U.S.  military reviewed their cases.
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Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror laws breaks European human rights laws, law lords ruled today. The decision from nine of the law lords, who make up Britain&#39;s highest court, throws
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Government powers enabling foreigners to be detained without limit under emergency anti-terror laws threaten the values they were designed to protect, the law lords were told today.
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Britain&#39;s highest court ruled today that the British government cannot indefinitely detain foreigners suspected of terrorism without charges or trial, calling
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BRITAIN&#39;S top court delivered a severe jolt to Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s post-September 11 security policies today by ruling against the detention of nine foreign terrorism suspects without trial.
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Charles Clarke faces his first big test as Home Secretary on Monday - bringing in the government&#39;s proposals on ID cards. Up to 30 Labour backbenchers have threatened to vote against the measures saying they represent an erosion of civil liberties.
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Taking a tough stance, the new British Home Secretary Charles Clarke ruled out release of 12 overseas terror suspects, even after Law Lords ruled detention without trial as a breach of human rights law.
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Charles Clarke prepares for a political battle over plans to put terrorist suspects under house arrest.
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The lawyer for nine UK residents held at Guantanamo says Britain could bring them home now if it acted.
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The House Armed Services chairman, who advocates a tough stance on terrorist prisoner suspects, warned Wednesday against being too lax in prosecuting detainees.
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Shackled in front of a three-member panel, Guantanamo detainees continued to go before military tribunals Tuesday despite a landmark ruling that could halt the proceedings and future trials.
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LONDON  - A key but controversial plank of Britain&#39;s post-September 11 security policy was thrown into disarray as the country&#39;s highest court ruled that detaining terror suspects indefinitely without trial violated human rights laws.