UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke Saturday issued the first "control orders" limiting the movements of uncharged terror suspects under authority granted by the Prevention of Terrorism Act that was passed by Parliament Friday. The orders were issued...
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At the instance of UK Members of Parliament, the Bar Council , the governing body for English barristers, is launching an independent inquiry into the legal advice that England's Attorney General provided to Prime Minister Tony Blair in...
In a split 84-34 vote that is being claimed as a symbolic victory for the Bush administration, the UN General Assembly Tuesday urged governments to enact a total ban on human cloning , including the cloning of...
UK lawyers call for action on detainees, change in terror law
Britain's Law Society , which represents lawyers in England and Wales, has called for the nine foreign terror suspects who have been detained in the UK since December 2001 to be tried or released....
Iran backs down on centrifuges, putting nuclear accord back on track
Iran has given up its demand to retain 20 uranium enrichment centrifuges, a move that had threatened to derail a draft nuclear disarmament put forward at the UN by the UK, Germany and France. Iran sent a letter to...