Gotta love a headline like that...
Some of the law lords complained that ancient liberties were being imperilled in an unjustified rush. They opposed control orders, but due to the pressure of time, were being forced to compromise and impose a measure of judicial control. The government faces further defeats in the Lords today on whether the whole set of measures should expire in November.
Angry lords savage terror bill Blair ally Derry Irvine leads revolt Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent Tuesday March 8, 2005 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5142873-108933,00.html
Guardian
Tony Blair was last night deserted by his mentor, the former lord chancellor Lord Irvine, who joined 20 other Labour rebels to inflict a humiliating defeat on the government's plans to impose control orders on suspected terrorists.
In the biggest defeat in the Lords for the current government on a whipped vote, peers insisted that only the judiciary, and not the home secretary, should impose control orders, including electronic tagging. <...>
Procedures for the control orders will also require an automatic appeal on the merits of the case, wrecking government plans for judges only to be allowed to look at whether the government had acted proportionately and within its powers. <...>
A rebuff in the Commons, or continued resistance from peers on Thursday, would mean that Mr Blair faced either having no anti-terror laws, or a temporary continuance of the current regime of indefinite detention of foreign suspected terrorists held at Belmarsh jail. The law lords have ruled that the latter is disproportionate and in breach of the European convention. <...>
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