Human Rights Joint Committee - Sixteenth Report
Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Seventeenth Report): Bringing Human Rights Back In

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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 9 March 2010.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Normalising the exceptional

Introduction

Is there a "public emergency threatening the life of the nation"?

Availability of information about the scale of the threat

A statutory framework for derogation

3 Complicity in torture

The meaning of complicity

Guidance on interrogation overseas

The urgent need for an independent inquiry

4 Secret evidence

Secret evidence and control orders

The growth in the use of secret evidence

The implications of recent court judgments

Keeping law accessible

5 Pre-charge detention

Is the power to detain for up to 28 days still necessary?

Adequacy of procedural safeguards on extension of pre-charge detention

Draft Bill on 42 days

Alternatives to extended pre-charge detention

Bail for Terrorism Act offences

Intercept as evidence

Impact on communities

6 Democratic Accountability for Counter-Terrorism Policy

Introduction

The Intelligence and Security Committee

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy

The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism legislation

7 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee since 2007-08

Oral and Written Evidence
1 December 2009

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Prepared 25 March 2010