Security detention - United Kingdom practice
This article assesses the role of security detention within the context of a number of the United Kingdom’s anti-terrorism policies. It considers the U.K. provisions on indefinite detention and the judicial response to those policies. Close attention is given to the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005...
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| description | This article assesses the role of security detention within the context of a number of the United Kingdom’s anti-terrorism policies. It considers the U.K. provisions on indefinite detention and the judicial response to those policies. Close attention is given to the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (PTA 2005), and in particular the detailed regime of “control orders” it introduced. The different substantive and procedural bases for judicial challenges to control orders are illustrated by reference to the leading judicial decisions. The challenges have principally been based on the human rights provisions in the European convention on human rights. These have been given a degree of domestic incorporation by the Human Rights Act (1998). Consideration is given to the future use of control orders and how an “exit strategy" from them could be devised. Finally, the article analyses the place of security detention within the context of other policy options that form part of an Anti-Terrorism Strategy. It is submitted that none of them is cost-free in human rights terms. |
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| spelling | nottingham-345982020-05-04T20:26:55Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34598/ Security detention - United Kingdom practice McGoldrick, Dominic This article assesses the role of security detention within the context of a number of the United Kingdom’s anti-terrorism policies. It considers the U.K. provisions on indefinite detention and the judicial response to those policies. Close attention is given to the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (PTA 2005), and in particular the detailed regime of “control orders” it introduced. The different substantive and procedural bases for judicial challenges to control orders are illustrated by reference to the leading judicial decisions. The challenges have principally been based on the human rights provisions in the European convention on human rights. These have been given a degree of domestic incorporation by the Human Rights Act (1998). Consideration is given to the future use of control orders and how an “exit strategy" from them could be devised. Finally, the article analyses the place of security detention within the context of other policy options that form part of an Anti-Terrorism Strategy. It is submitted that none of them is cost-free in human rights terms. Case Western Reserve University School of Law 2009 Article PeerReviewed McGoldrick, Dominic (2009) Security detention - United Kingdom practice. Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 40 (3). pp. 507-530. ISSN 0008-7254 Security Detention Anti-Terrorism Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Indefinite Detention Human Rights http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jil/vol40/iss3/7 |
| spellingShingle | Security Detention Anti-Terrorism Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Indefinite Detention Human Rights McGoldrick, Dominic Security detention - United Kingdom practice |
| title | Security detention - United Kingdom practice |
| title_full | Security detention - United Kingdom practice |
| title_fullStr | Security detention - United Kingdom practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Security detention - United Kingdom practice |
| title_short | Security detention - United Kingdom practice |
| title_sort | security detention - united kingdom practice |
| topic | Security Detention Anti-Terrorism Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Indefinite Detention Human Rights |
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