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An introduction to the nature of rights and liberties -- The European convention on human rights -- Methods of protecting civil liberties and human rights in the UK asice from the Human Rights Act -- The Human Rights Act -- Principles of equality -- Restraining freedom of expression under the law of contempt -- Offensive speech -- Official secrecy; access to state information -- Freedom of protest and assembly -- Private information and media freedom -- State surveillance -- Police powers of stop, search, arrest, detention -- Police questioning and safeguards for suspects -- Redress for police malpractice -- Anti-terrorism law and human rights

This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the ""war on terror"" post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support them. It examines the shift from a criminal justice response to the creation of a parallel preventive system running in tandem with it. This system has tended to veer away from the commission of criminal offences or adherence to ordinary criminal justice safeguards. Such a preventive strategy relies on targeting terrorist suspects - those who it is thought may in future commit terrorist acts - and curbing their actions with the aim of preventing te

It has often been pointed out that terrorist attacks place democratic values under pressure. Indeed, terrorists may well have the aim of forcing democracies to reveal their lack of commitment to such values & their readiness to embrace authoritarian measures. This chapter will argue that the AntiTerrorism, Crime & Security Act 2001 (ATCSA), introduced by the Labour government as a response to the 11 September (2001) attacks, satisfies this aim because it comes into conflict with a number of the guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights received into domestic law under the Human Rights Act 1998. Indeed, the tension between those rights & the ATCSA measures is such that to introduce the latter the government had to derogate from the fundamental guarantee of the right to liberty of the person. The mounting tension discerned by commentators between the Labour government's increasingly authoritarian measures & the Human Rights Act that it itself introduced currently reaches its climax, it is argued, in Part 4 of ACTSA. An exploration of that tension forms the central theme of this chapter. Adapted from the source document.

CONTENTS -- TABLE OF CASES -- TABLE OF LEGISLATION -- TABLE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION -- CHAPTER 1 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- CHAPTER 2 OFFICIAL SECRECY AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION -- CHAPTER 3 FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION -- CHAPTER 4 PRIVACY -- CHAPTER 5 POLICE POWERS AND COUNTERTERRORIST MEASURES -- THE RIGHTS OF SUSPECTS -- CHAPTER 6 PRISONERS' RIGHTS -- CHAPTER 7 FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT -- CHAPTER 8 FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION -- CHAPTER 9 THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 AND THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS -- INDEX