Joint Committee On Human Rights - Eighteenth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 21 July 2004.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Report
The Human Rights Framework
Evidence of the level of threat from international
terrorism
The working of Part 4 ATCSA 2001 in practice
Admissibility of torture evidence
The adequacy of the safeguards against injustice
Indefinite detention and mental health
The special advocate system
Discrimination
Alternatives to Part 4 ATCSA 2001
Prosecution for Existing Criminal Offences
Creation of new criminal offences
Terrorism as an aggravating factor in sentencing
Surveillance
Civil restriction orders
Comparison with other countries
Conclusion
Annex A: Note prepared for the Joint Committee
on Human Rights by Jago Russell of the Scrutiny Unit, House of
Commons
Annex B: Extract from Minutes of evidence
taken before the Committee on 19 May 2004 50
Formal Minutes
Appendices
1. Submission from Commission for Racial
Equality
2. Submission from the Mental Health Act
Commission
3. Submission from Amnesty International
4. Submission from Brethren (Christian Group)
5. Submission from The British Psychological
Society
6. Submission from JUSTICE
7. Submission from the Medical Foundation
for the Care of Victims of Torture
Witnesses
Reports from the Joint Committee on Human
Rights since 2001
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Wednesday 16 June 2004
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