13/01/2010

Media Coverage - 13th January 2010

Daily Mail - Stop-and-search terror powers declared illegal by human rights court

Controversial anti-terror laws which let police stop and search without grounds for suspicion were yesterday ruled illegal by European judges.

Civil liberties campaigners heralded the human rights verdict as 'a great day for freedom in Britain'.

Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, said: 'Random stop and search powers were a shocking abuse of our historic, hard-won liberties.

'What this tremendous judgment cannot undo is the embarrassment and anguish felt by the many people abused for no good reason under this now unlawful power.'

Metro 13.01.10
Metro - Random stop and search is illegal 

Daily Mail - Taxman using terror laws 15 times a day to spy on suspects

Alex Deane of the anti-surveillance pressure group Big Brother Watch said: 'The widespread abuse of the law by councils has shown us how carefully we must look at the way these powers are used.

'The extent of the use of RIPA by Revenue and Customs suggests that many individual taxpayers have been snooped on without their knowledge.'

He added: 'Readers of the Mail who see this news today might rightly wonder who has been watching them.'

The Independent - Police stop and search powers ruled illegal

24dash.com - UK police stop and search powers declared 'illegal'

13 Jan 2010 08:56:52 | Media coverage

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