Lords Rule that Control Orders Breach Human Rights
December 7, 2007
“Control Orders Breach Human Rights, Lords Rule”
Daily Telegraph, 31/10/2007
The newspaper article deals with an objection by senior judges to the 18 hour home curfew
as it breaches the right to liberty (article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)) and the right to fair trial (article 6 ECHR).Furthermore, they held that a 12-hour curfew was permitted and that suspected terrorists should be subject to “civil fair trial procedures”. which has been breached in some cases by the “special advocate procedure” .
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The foundation of the Rule of Law, as a moral principle, has been undermined, because
the human rights (including the right to liberty) of persons subject to control orders have not been protected.
“Control orders breach human rights, law lords say”Guardian Unlimited, 31/10/2007 The government must rethink some aspects of control orders imposed on terrorism suspects, the law lords said today, while ruling that the overall system can remain in place. In a complex and lengthy series of decisions, Britain’s most senior judges said that the most restrictive aspect of the regime, an 18-hour home curfew, breached the human right to liberty. However, they held that shorter curfews, possibly up to 16 hours, were acceptable.
Full story at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2202266,00.html
By Joanna Glajzer and Alec Liong
Further information can be found at:
BBC Q&A Control Orders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6268959.stm
Control Orders: Key cases October 2007
