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5 Apr 2006, 4:53 am
[JURIST] UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton [official profile] who under the UK's traditional governmental structure served three roles as Speaker of the House of Lords, the head of the UK's judiciary, and a minister in the British government, has resigned his judicial post as part of the constitutional reform process instigated by Prime Minister Tony Blair. [read post]
13 Mar 2006, 9:19 pm
[JURIST Europe] The controversial UK Identity Cards Bill [official PDF text; JURIST news archive] will go back to the House of Lords [Commons Insistence on Disagreement, PDF] on Wednesday after Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party won a critical vote in the House of Commons [official website] to back a proposal that would make registration for the cards mandatory when applying for [read post]
6 Mar 2006, 7:41 am
[JURIST] The UK House of Lords [official website] dealt another major legislative setback to the anti-terrorism policies of the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair Monday by voting down for a second time a bill designed to establish a UK national ID card system. [read post]
23 Feb 2006, 1:55 pm
[JURIST] Two separate reports issued in Britain Thursday strongly criticized the anti-terror strategy of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, documenting domestic deprivations of human rights, condemning UK policy on torture, and urging the government to press the US to shut down its controversial detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
14 Feb 2006, 7:59 pm
Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile], Chancellor Gordon Brown [official profile], and Home Secretary Charles Clark [official profile] were the among the Labor MPs [party website] who voted for a full ban instead of the limited version of the [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 10:39 pm
[JURIST Europe] The controversial Identity Cards Bill [official PDF text] narrowly passed its critical second reading in the British House of Commons Monday evening despite efforts by opposition parties and rebellious backbenchers from British Prime Minister Tony Blair's [official profile] own Labour Party to stop it. [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 2:06 am
[JURIST Europe] UK Chancellor Gordon Brown [official profile], widely expected to succeed Tony Blair [JURIST news archive] as British Prime Minister before the next election if not sooner, delivered a major policy address Monday calling for a toughening-up of the Terrorism Bill [amended text] currently before the UK Parliament. [read post]
26 Jan 2006, 1:52 pm
Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] and British PM Tony Blair [official profile] in the new International Criminal Court for abusing [read post]
26 Jan 2006, 11:20 am
The e-mails indicate that Blair wanted to ban the radical Islamic party [read post]
18 Jan 2006, 11:21 am
The group, notorious for past stunts such as a 2004 powder attack on Blair [JURIST [read post]
17 Jan 2006, 7:00 am
Prime Minister Tony Blair has already faced [read post]
17 Jan 2006, 6:29 am
[JURIST] The British government Tuesday denied allegations that a government memo documenting a conversation between British Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] and President George Bush included a suggestion to bomb the Aljazeera [media website] headquarters, after the news agency hired a law firm [AP report] to put pressure on the British government to release the memo. [read post]
15 Jan 2006, 4:11 am
[JURIST] The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair will in a few weeks lift a longstanding ban on wiretapping the phones of members of parliament as part of a push to expand the surveillance powers of Britain's MI5 [official website] security service in the wake of the July 2005 London bombings [JURIST report], according to the Independent on Sunday newspaper. [read post]
10 Jan 2006, 12:03 am
[JURIST] General Sir Michael Rose [Wikipedia profile], a retired British military leader and the former UN military commander in Bosnia, has said that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile; JURIST news archive] should be impeached for making the decision to go to war in Iraq based on flawed claims that the regime there possessed weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
9 Dec 2005, 6:26 am
[JURIST] Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] on Friday decided [decision text; press release] that they will not issue subpoenas for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official website] and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder [BBC profile] ordering them to testify as witnesses in the Slobodan Milosevic trial [JURIST news archive] as the [read post]
7 Dec 2005, 8:39 am
[JURIST] British playwright Harold Pinter [official website], winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature [official website], has called for war crimes charges against US President Bush [official profile] and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] in an acceptance speech to be shown Saturday at the award ceremony in Stockholm. [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 7:32 am
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposed anti-terrorism law [text; BBC backgrounder] is under more pressure for amendment [JURIST report] after the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Monday reported [text] that currently-proposed provisions - such as the proposal that someone could be found guilty of inciting terrorist behavior regardless of intent - would be contrary to the [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 2:11 am
Blair has said that making the decision-making process more transparent would increase support for EU initiatives. [read post]
29 Nov 2005, 9:09 am
Last week, two British civil servants were charged with leaking a memo [JURIST report], in which British Prime Minister Tony Blair [ [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 10:35 am
[JURIST] Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) [official website] has asked Home Secretary Charles Clarke to approve an investigation [IPCC press release] into the way Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair [official profile] handled the July subway shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. [read post]
