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“Travellers’ gathering seen as a success” Press and Journal
Following posted on 22.7.10
“Travelling towards a better understanding of gypsies” Evening News
Following posted on 9.7.10
“Group urges councils to give travellers more support” Press and Journal
“A town under siege” Scottish Review
“Travellers make their move” Press and Journal
“MSP to urge police to act over travellers” Press and Journal
See also
Amnesty International (Scotland) Scottish Gypsy Travellers
Posted by MM on Fri 23rd Jul 2010 at 8:11 amUpdate
“28–day detention must not be renewed” Guardian
“Bravo, Theresa May and the new spirit of freedom” Guardian
Following posted on 14.7.10
“Government to review counter–terror laws” Independent
“Fury at new terror laws chief” Scottish Sun
“Tories warn ministers: Don’t go soft on terrorism” Express
“Counter–terrorism powers to face government review” BBC
Press release
“Rapid review of counter–terrorism powers” Home Office
Posted by MM on Thu 15th Jul 2010 at 8:10 amUpdate
“Anti–terror stop and search powers to be scrapped” Guardian
“Anti–terrorism stop and search powers dropped” Telegraph
“Rules on stop and search changed” BBC
Following posted on 11.6.10
“Police abused power to stop and search” Herald
“Illegal stop and searches could mean compensation for thousands” Guardian
“Stop and search policy will be robustly reviewed” Guardian
“Claims ahead over terror search errors” Independent
“Thousands of anti–terror searches were illegal” BBC
Following posted on 13.1.10
“European court condemns police misuse of stop and search” Guardian
“Welcome judgement on stop and search” Guardian
“Tories will change law to cut use of stop–and–search” Independent
“Searching questions about a bad law” Scotsman
“Alan Johnson to fight Euro ruling on terror searches” Scotsman
“Euro court outlaws our stop and search powers” Express
“Stop–and–search powers ruled illegal by European court” BBC
Press release
“Changes to police search powers” Home Office (July 2010)
“Liberty welcomes demise of section 44 stop and search after long fight through Courts” Liberty (July 2010)
“Liberty wins landmark stop and search case in Court of Human Rights” Liberty (January 2010)
See also
ECHR 12.1.10: Gillan and Quinton V the United Kingdom
Research tip: for other relevant posts try entering ‘terror’ in the search box.
“Identity cards scheme will be axed ‘within 100 days’” BBC
“ID cards scheme to be scrapped within 100 days” Guardian
“ID cards to be scrapped within 100 days” Telegraph
Press release
“Identity cards and National Identity Register to be scrapped” Home Office
See also
Identity and Passport Service – identity cards
http://www.no2id.net/
Update
“Children’s DNA bank under fire” Herald
Following posted on 28.4.10
“MSPs reject holding DNA from innocent people for six years” Scotsman
“MSPs reject six–year DNA retention change” BBC
“Anger at plan to keep child crime DNA” Scotland on Sunday 4.4.10
Following posted on 28.9.09
“Government seeks to close DNA ‘loophole’” Scotsman
“Call to retain more DNA samples” BBC
“Bid to close DNA “loophole"” Law Society Journal Online
See also
Justice Committee Official Report 27.4.10: Section 58 Retention of samples etc
This is the section of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition agreement headed ‘civil liberties’.
“The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government and roll back state intrusion.
This will include:
•A freedom or great repeal bill;
•The scrapping of the ID card scheme, the national identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point database;
• Outlawing the fingerprinting of children at school without parental permission;
• The extension of the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency;
• Adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database;
• The protection of historic freedoms through the defence of trial by jury;
• The restoration of rights to non-violent protest;
• The review of libel laws to protect freedom of speech;
• Safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation;
• Further regulation of CCTV;
• Ending of storage of internet and email records without good reason;
• A new mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences.”
“Cameron will scale back database state” Guardian
“Government scraps Labour plans in bonfire of the policies” Independent
See also
Identity and Passport Service
Coalition agreement May 2010
“Sneaky flying spy cameras provoke civil liberty fears” Express
“Skyway patrol” Scottish Sun
See also
UK Trade Association for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Also
Posted by MM on Tue 30th Mar 2010 at 9:22 am“Is the freedom to beg a right worth defending?” Evening News
Posted by MM on Fri 29th Jan 2010 at 10:21 am“Low arrest rate raises stop–and–search doubts” Times
Posted by MM on Mon 4th Jan 2010 at 3:39 pm“Scots have criminal record checks overturned after identity blunder” Daily Record
“Criminal record check disputes soar” STV