REPORTS & CAMPAIGN BRIEFINGS

• Comparative Law Study 2010 - Pre Charge Detention

• Detailed report showing that the UK 28 day pre-charge detention limit far exceeds other comparable democracies. July 2010 (PDF)

• Common Sense: Reflections on the Human Rights Act

• A short book of articles about the Human Rights Act by Prof. Francesca Klug, Helena Kennedy QC and others, June 2010 (PDF)

• A Manifesto For Justice

• Liberty is part of a coalition or organisations calling for political commitment to the justice system. Read the coalition manifesto, December 2009 (PDF)

• Churchill's Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act

• A short book written by Conservative parliamentary candidate Jesse Norman and political columnist Peter Oborne and published by Liberty in support of the Common Values campaign, October 2009 (PDF)

• Liberty Human Rights Legislation Audit 1999 - 2009

• Our review of ten years of human rights legislation in the UK, March 2009 (PDF)

• ID Cards - Fiction and Fact 2009

• Pocket-sized booklet explaining the issues around ID cards, 2009 (PDF, 2Mb)

• Fact and Fiction: The Human Rights Act

• A leaflet exploding some common myths and misconceptions about the Act (PDF)

• Overlooked: Surveillance and personal privacy in modern Britain 

• Liberty's new report looking at the state of personal privacy in Britain today, including the impact of new technology, ID cards and CCTV, Dec 2007

• Pre-Charge Detention - Comparative Law Study

• Research comparing detention powers across different countries and showing that the UK has the longest period of pre-charge detention in the western world, Dec 2007.

• Setting the Record Straight

• Liberty's paper on the dangers of ‘off the record’ briefings to the media during police counter-terrorist operations, May 07.

• Litigating the Public Interest

• Report of the working group on facilitating public interest litigation.

• Defending the Human Rights Act

• 4 page briefing exploding some of the myths about the Human Rights Act 1998. Produced in May 2006.

• Are You...? ID Cards and the National Database: Why you should take your privacy personally

• Detailed but short leaflet explaining how ID Cards and the National Database will impact on our lives. Produced in 2005.

• Big Brother: Sometimes Reality is Scarier

• Big Brother’ is an incisive comic exploring the worst excesses of the Blair government - from curfews to house arrest; restrictions on protest to complicity in torture. Designed by Kate Evans and published by CAMPACC in 2005.

• The Impact of Anti-terror Measures on the British Muslim Population

• Short report, published June 04

• Casualty of War: 8 Weeks of Counter-Terrorism in Rural England

• This report was jointly produced by Liberty and Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors and Berkshire CIA in July 2003.

• The Rights of Crime Victims: A Manifesto for Better Treatment of Victims in the Criminal Justice System

• This report was published in February 2003

• Magistrates' Courts and Public Confidence: A Proposal for a Fair and Effective Magistracy

• This report was published in February 2002 (199KB) 

• An Independent Police Complaints Commission

• This report, published in April 2000, was used in determining the format and scope of the Independent Police Complaints Commission which became operational in 2004.