The ‘safeguard’ reviews have been largely ineffective in scrutinising the powers.
- Professor of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
Protest has not been explicitly outlawed during the pandemic. So let’s not pretend Clapham protesters should have expected the police response.
Those lefty do-good lawyers Johnson and Patel are so concerned about are a vital part of parliamentary democracy based on the rule of law. This is precisely why they continue to denigrate them.
The end of the 8th amendment is on the horizon.
The almost total ban on abortion in Ireland does not work to protect women’s health.
These principles don’t prevent the state from countering terrorism, but they do prevent the state from countering terrorism in whatever way it pleases.
It’s not the end of Brexit but parliament could give the government a rough ride.
We know there has to be an act of parliament but there’s all to play for when it comes to what’s actually in it.
Theresa May has been the longest-serving home secretary since the 19th century, but her tenure is distinctive for other reasons, too.
Fragmented policing had played a part in this tragedy – and the EU must acknowledge what has gone wrong before solutions can be found.
Less is often more – acting quickly in the wake of atrocities rarely leads to good laws.
The British government’s position is that this was a legitimate act of self-defence in a war zone. But there are other issues to examine.
As Wikileaks reveals yet more details of the astonishing extent of GCHQ mass surveillance, where is the proof that bulk data collection even works?
The high-profile case of a young woman forced to give birth in Ireland has highlighted the realities of Ireland’s recently introduced Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 – a law designed to regulate…
Theresa May has rejected claims that the UK is a surveillance society, stressing instead the extensive oversight of intelligence and the need, as she sees it, to increase legal capacities to survey online…
In response to widespread outrage about the National Security Agency’s work monitoring telephone and internet usage metadata, Barack Obama is gearing up to propose a range of (relatively minor) changes…
President Obama faced a difficult task in his speech on reform of the NSA’s surveillance activities. As an accomplished orator, crafting a well-received speech was obviously within his capabilities, but…
Even before opening his stocking on Christmas morning, Barack Obama has his holiday reading cut out for him. His Review Group on Intelligence and Surveillance Technologies has handed him a 300-page report…
Next month the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), Yves Bot, will publish an opinion on the extent to which the Data Retention Directive, one of the most controversial security measures…
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