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24 Nov 2005, 12:46 am
Especially when they are designed to hide the truth about war and involve the United States.National newspapers in the United Kingdom have been bitch slapped with an unprecedented gag order under the Official Secrets Act, under which they wll be prosecuted if they publish a leaked sensitive five-page memo containing politically embarrassing details of face-to-face exchanges between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. [read post]
23 Nov 2005, 2:11 pm
[JURIST] English Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has told British newspapers that ran a story on a leaked UK government document purportedly describing conversations in April 2004 between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President Bush over the Iraq war that they could be subject to prosecution under Section 5 [text] of the UK Official Secrets Act [text] if they reveal details of the [read post]
22 Nov 2005, 8:15 pm
[JURIST] Two men have been charged for leaking a UK government memo that led to a newspaper report Tuesday that said UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] had talked President Bush out of bombing the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera [official website]. [read post]
21 Nov 2005, 2:15 pm
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposed terrorism law [text; BBC backgrounder] faced stiff opposition when it reached the House of Lords [official website] Monday. [read post]
9 Nov 2005, 4:08 am
[JURIST] The BBC is reporting that the UK government of Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost a House of Commons vote [BBC debate summary] on a key provision of its proposed Terrorism Bill [text] that would have authorized detention of terror suspects without charge for up to 90 days. 12:25 PM ET - AP is reporting that MPs in the House of Commons have instead approved a compromise measure to allow [read post]
25 Oct 2005, 4:16 pm
[JURIST] Britain's House of Lords [official website] on Tuesday substantially amended the Blair government's controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill [text; BBC Q/A]. [read post]
22 Oct 2005, 3:20 pm
[JURIST] A private bill introduced by former Blair cabinet minister Clare Short [official profile] that would have given British lawmakers veto power over the Prime Minister's prerogative to declare war failed to progress Friday after the House of Commons could not muster the 100 votes required for it to progress. [read post]
16 Oct 2005, 7:20 am
[JURIST] Explicitly evoking images of Germany in the 1930s, senior British judges and lawyers are warning that the Blair government's efforts to put pressure on the judiciary in the interpretation of the Human Rights Act [text] while restricting traditional civil liberties in anti-terror legislation risks turning the country into a police state. [read post]
30 Sep 2005, 8:02 am
" In an interview [recorded audio] Thursday with BBC's Today program, Prime Minister Tony Blair noted that because the proposed law needed to strike a balance between security and civil rights, it needed to be "very [read post]
16 Sep 2005, 2:17 am
Blair told BBC Radio [Radio 4 recorded audio] that if people wanted to come and live in [read post]
23 Aug 2005, 3:06 am
[JURIST] The results of a new poll suggest that British citizens are receptive to tough new anti-terror laws [JURIST report] detailed by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official bio] earlier this month. [read post]
21 Aug 2005, 4:49 am
In an interview [NOTW article] Sunday with British tabloid News of the World, Blair says that his actions following the shooting were not inappropriate, as members of de [read post]
18 Aug 2005, 5:50 am
The lawyers said Thursday that Blair [read post]
14 Aug 2005, 3:10 am
Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes [JURIST report] earlier this month following the July [read post]
12 Aug 2005, 2:41 am
[JURIST] Lord Charles Falconer [official profile], Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor in Tony Blair's Labour government, said Friday in an interview [recorded audio] with BBC Radio that judges could be given explicit legislative guidance [BBC report] on how to interpret the UK's Human Rights Act in order to guarantee that efforts to deport foreign nationals considered a threat to national [read post]
11 Aug 2005, 3:41 am
[JURIST] Under new antiterrorism measures [JURIST report] announced last week by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, UK police Thursday detained 10 foreigners, from countries including Jordan, Lebanon, and Algeria, who have been deemed to pose a security threat and scheduled them for deportation. [read post]
10 Aug 2005, 2:45 am
Prime Minister Tony Blair has made some controversial proposals, including advocating a possible amendment [read post]
9 Aug 2005, 4:24 am
While such laws prohibit Britain from deporting people to a country where they may face torture or death, Blair said he planned to obtain pledges from [read post]
28 Jul 2005, 10:16 am
The move was characterized by British Prime Minister Tony Blair [press release] and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern [Wikipedia profile] as "a momentous and historic development" [Ireland Online report]. [read post]
27 Jul 2005, 9:14 am
[JURIST] Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters on Tuesday that he thinks it's "perfectly reasonable" [10 Downing Street transcript] for the British police to be able to hold suspects without charges for more than the current 14 days. [read post]
