The Times reports today that the High Court is about to deliver a new blow on terror to the government. See the title link.
I hope they are right. According to the article in The Times:
The government has used subordinate legislation to deny terrorist suspects the right to get legal advice, make them apply to the executive for £10 a week expenses (pardon? are we trying to starve them to death?), restricted their right of appeal to an appeal to the body that made the original decision and denied them access to any information that would enable them to establish grounds for an appeal.
Has it really gone this far?
It also seems that these truly draconian rules have been brought into force without being debated in parliament.
I almost refuse to believe that any Uk government would descend into this Stasi nightmare. I assume that The Times is not making it up, however.
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