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| CURRENT BILLSLiberty provides briefings for the different stages of a Bill's progress through parliament, including sometimes drafting amendments. The most substantive briefings are usually those prepared for the 'Second Reading', where the substance of the Bill is debated for the first time. Liberty's short briefing on the Government’s amendments to the Counter Terrorism Bill, explaining why the amendments would not create a genuine emergency power reserved for use in the kind of nightmare scenarios referred to by Government, June 2008.
Briefing on a private member's bill, which, if enacted, would enable torture survivors in the UK to bring a civil claim for compensation in the courts of England and Wales against the officials and States responsible for their torture, April 08
Liberty's Second Reading briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Lords, with Age Concern, Help the Aged, BIHR and Justice, March 08.
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