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JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, lead defense counsel for former Major Aloys Ntabakuze in the Military 1 Trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and president of the UN-ICTR Defense Lawyers Association,...

Control orders imposing restrictions on uncharged suspects under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 should not exceed two years in duration except under extraordinary circumstances, the UK's counter-terrorism law ombudsman...

An influential UK Conservative Party donor has launched a legal effort to force the UK government to put the ratification of the new EU reform treaty properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon [official website; PDF...

UK prosecutors Wednesday dropped charges against Dennis Pasquill, a civil servant in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office who was accused of leaking secret documents about CIA rendition flights to the New Statesman and...

Three former UK residents held at Guantanamo Bay who were released from US custody Wednesday and then detained by UK authorities the same day on their arrival home were released from UK custody Thursday. Libyan...

Three UK residents released Wednesday from Guantanamo Bay were detained by UK authorities when they arrived in the UK later in the day. Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur were arrested and Jordanian Jamil el...

Four of the five UK residents being detained at Guantanamo Bay are scheduled to be released, the BBC reported Friday. Jordanian Jamil el Banna, Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur will return to the UK,...

Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf Friday denounced the UK government's latest proposal to extend beyond 28 days the time that terror suspects can be held without charge, supporting positions taken by other current and former top...

The Labour Party government of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday unveiled its new legislative agenda for the 2007-2008 session of Parliament, pledging to "seek a consensus on changes to the law on terrorism ......

The UK Law Lords ruled Wednesday that the government can continue to impose control orders on terror suspects in lieu of detention, but said that some elements of the orders issued under the Prevention...