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Liberty News

11 February 2012

Just security?

Huge thanks to everyone who has already been in touch about Liberty’s forthcoming campaign against the proposals in the Government’s “Justice and Security” Green Paper. The document might have been better titled “Just Security” with a cover edged in black to mourn the passing of centuries of open justice and equality before the law.

You will recall that...

8 February 2012

Finally, equal protection for all vulnerable psychiatric patients

One of the biggest concerns for anyone who loves or cares for someone with a mental illness must surely be the fear that if and when their loved one asks for help, help might not be there. That at the time when their loved one most...

7 February 2012

Abu Qatada: The unanswered questions

Outrage at the ruling that Abu Qatada will have to be freed on bail after nearly seven years of detention without charge is predictable. The Home Office has attacked the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision, politicians have decried human rights laws and various commentators are demanding...

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