The right to a fair trial

The 2005 Prevention of Terrorism Act allowed the government to place control orders on terrorism suspects in cases where there was insufficient evidence to prosecute them, for example when intelligence against the suspect had been compiled by using bugging, which is not allowed to be used as evidence in court, or where sources needed to be kept secret. Control orders can take many forms, such as restricting an individual’s movement, work or communication with others, curfews, electronic tagging, requiring the individual to report at a certain place and time and confiscating a suspect’s passport. In 2007 the Law Lords ruled that 18-hour curfews were too long to be imposed as part of control orders, but otherwise that control orders were not unlawful.

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