The Government Reply to the Ninth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights Session 2009-10 HL Paper 64, HC 395 PDF Download

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Languages : en
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Author: Great Britain. Home Office
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ISBN: 9780101785624
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Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Dated March 2010. Response to 9th report (ISBN 9780108459481)

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459245
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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A report that provides an overview of the Committee's work during the 2008-09 parliamentary session and draws attention to improvements to the human rights landscape in the UK which it has commended in reports during the year. It also mentions a number of continuing areas for concern.

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459603
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Incorporating HC 1842-i and ii of session 2008-09

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Government response to HL 141/ 522, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780108444777) which was a follow up to HL 47-I/HC 320-I, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780104014530)

Author: U K Stationery Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459177
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Legislative Scrutiny : Financial Services Bill and the Pre-budget report, third report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and Appendices

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459771
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Enhancing Parliament's role in relation to human rights Judgments : Fifteenth report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459702
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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The Joint Committee on Human Rights calls for a fundamental, independent review of the necessity for and proportionality of all counter-terrorism measures adopted since September 11 2001. It questions the way that the policy imperatives of national security and public safety have been used to justify squeezing out human rights considerations. Since September 11 2001, the Government has continuously claimed that there is a "public emergency threatening the life of the nation". The Committee questions whether the country has really been in this state for over eight years. A permanent state of emergency skews public debate about the justification for rights-limiting counter-terrorism measures. It is unacceptable that the Director General of the Security Service refuses to appear before it to give public evidence - despite giving public lectures and media interviews. The Committee finds the Government's narrow definition of complicity in torture significant and worrying and calls for an urgent independent inquiry into the allegations of complicity in torture. The Government should drop the draft bill still being held in reserve to allow pre-charge detention to be extended to 42 days. And more work should be done on measures - such as bail and the use of intercept evidence - that could reduce the use of pre-charge detention. The Intelligence and Security Committee should become a proper Parliamentary committee with an independent secretariat and legal advice and appointing an independent reviewer of counter-terror legislation who reports directly to Parliament not the Government.

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (sixteenth Report) : Annual renewal of control orders legislation 2010, ninth report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108473500
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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The Joint Committee on Human Rights concludes that the current statutory framework does not provide effective protection for human rights. The rights most often relevant to extradition are: prohibition of torture; fair trial; liberty and security; private and family life; and prohibition of discrimination. The Committee calls on the Government to spell out detailed safeguards in the statutory framework. Parliament should be asked to commence the "most appropriate forum" safeguard in the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2006 and that a requirement for the requesting country to show a prima facie case or similarly robust evidential threshold should be introduced in extradition cases. The most appropriate forum safeguard would require the judge to consider whether it is in the interests of justice for the individual to be tried in the requesting country - and to refuse the extradition request if it is not. The committee also calls for negotiated changes to the European Arrest Warrant, a review of the provision of legal representation. The committee also concludes that the power of the Secretary of State to refuse extradition to non-EU countries should not be extended. The powers of the judge in an extradition case should instead ensure adequate protection of rights.