The Human-Rights Compliance of UK Anti-Terrorism Legislation In the Light of Domestic and International Case Law

Contents: 1. Overview of contentious UK anti-terrorism legislation. 2. Human rights standards of protection in the UK’s legal system. 3. Inconsistencies between the UK’s human-rights obligations and anti-terrorism provisions emerging from the case law. i. The discrimination of foreign nationals suspected of involvement with terrorism. ii. Admissibility of “third-party torture” evidence and deportation based on “no torture” diplomatic assurances. iii. Proscription lists and fair trial guarantees. iv. Control orders as preventative punishment. v. The absence of safeguards against the arbitrariness of police “stop and search”. vi. The elusive boundaries of «encouragement of terrorism». 4. Concluding remarks on the judicial protection of human rights against the excesses of counter-terrorism.