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Court quashes terror control order

Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 and is filed under UK News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

A terror suspect control order has been revoked by the High Court – the first to be overturned following a landmark ruling by the House of Lords. A judge declared the order imposed on suspect "AN", relying on secret evidence, could not be allowed to stand in the light of the law lords’ decision. But Human rights lawyers said the Home Secretary was already preparing to replace the old, flawed order with a new one, and the case exposed the "Kafkaesque" and "farcical" nature of control orders generally. Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "Today’s farcical proceedings highlight the nightmare of control orders and the ‘heads we win, tails you lose’…

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