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British Home Secretary John Reid asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to overturn a ruling that terrorism suspects cannot be detained without charge under so-called control orders , arguing that a judgment last...

Secretary of State for the Home Department v JJ & Ors EWHC 1623 (Admin), June 28, 2006, UK High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Adminitrative Court, in the matter of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, Mr. Justice...

Recent British court rulings against the legality of control orders restricting terror suspects have precipitated a "constitutional crisis" in the UK, according to Labour Party MP John Denham , chair of the House of Commons Home...

A UK High Court judge ruled Wednesday that control orders authorizing the electronic monitoring or house arrest of terror suspects where there is not enough evidence to prosecute or convict them violate Article 5 ...

The UK Foreign Office on Friday took control of the case of Australian David Hicks , an accused Taliban member who has been detained at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay ...

The UK High Court on Thursday ruled that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians must be allowed to return to the group of islands from which they were exiled...

UK Home Secretary John Reid said Thursday that the government will appeal a Wednesday High Court decision to grant asylum to nine Afghans convicted of hijacking a plane to the UK in 2002, allowing them to...

Israeli activist group Peace Now has condemned Wednesday's directive from Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Omert to top security officials to block the gaps in the controversial security fence [JURIST report; IDF...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke sparred Tuesday with a former South African chief justice chairing an independent panel of inquiry into UK terrorism laws as Clarke testified on government policies that limit civil liberties. The two...

MB, Re EWHC 1000 (Admin), UK High Court, April 12, 2006 [ruling that a control order imposed to restrain a suspected terrorist under the UK's Prevention of Terrorism Act breached the suspect's human rights, in particular his right to...