*The House of Commons and House of Lords are now adjourned for Easter. The House of Commons will return on Mon 16 April and the House of Lords on Mon 23 April.*
Mon 2/4/2012
Secret Justice (Justice and Security Green Paper): Media
The Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has responded to the Government’s consultation on the proposals set out in their Justice and Security Green Paper.
Report | BBC | UKHRB
Deportation: Judiciary
In R (on the app of Amada Bizimana) v Sec of St for the Home Department, the Court of Appeal ruled where the prospect of deporting a detainee within a reasonable period has become unlikely due to difficulties establishing his nationality, continued detention becomes unlawful.
Judgment | UKHRB
Surveillance: Media
Senior Lib Dem MPs are threatening to rebel over the coalition government’s plans to extend the powers of the security services to monitor the public’s email, telephone calls and social media communications.
Guardian
Tues 3/4/2012
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Media
The Home Office is lining up A4e to take over the EHRC helpline to advise people of their rights in discrimination cases, despite the jobs agency being at the centre of a fraud inquiry, according to the investigative website Exaro.
Guardian
Surveillance: Media
Plans to introduce new laws to give GCHQ real-time access to data over Skype, instant messages and web-based email have prompted 16 Lib Dem MPs – more than a quarter of the parliamentary party – to write an open letter warning of the potential dangers.
Letter | Guardian
Wed 4/4/2012
Secret Justice (Justice and Security Green Paper): Media
The government is to scale back plans to create a new generation of secret courts after Nice Clegg wrote to cabinet colleagues to criticise the proposals as unacceptable in their present form.
Guardian
Secret Justice (Justice and Security Green Paper): Media
David Cameron has defended plans to create a new generation of secret courts and to extend powers to monitor the public’s emails, phone calls and social media communications, saying the government needed to take every step to keep the country safe.
Guardian
Thurs 5/4/2012
UK Human Rights Blog: Media
The UK Human Rights Blog launched on 30 March 2010 and this week celebrates its 2nd birthday. Adam Wagner takes a moment to reflect on its success.
UKHRB
Terrorism / Extradition: Media
Following a High Court ruling allowing them access, the BBC conducted an interview with Babar Ahmad at Long Lartin Prison. In days he will discover his fate as the ECtHR decides whether he – and other terrorism suspects – can be extradited to the US.
BBC
Right to Protest: Media
A legal battle over the Nottingham Occupy protest camp must go to a full trial a judge at Nottingham County Court has ruled.
BBC
Sun 8/4/2012
Immigration / Deportation: Media
New immigration rules are to be introduced to make it more difficult for foreign criminals to resist deportation by invoking Article 8. Home Secretary Theresa May announced that changes will be in place by summer to make clear the ECHR can only be used as a bar to deportation in ‘rare and exceptional cases’.
Guardian
