Tag: Article 5 ECHR

Craig Wells: The Veneer of Contentment: Mustafa, Salford and the Gaps the Deprivation of Liberty Reference Left Behind

In June I argued on this blog that the Supreme Court’s decision in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 broke faith with a discipline that runs from chapter 29 of the Magna Carta through the writ of habeas corpus to Article 5: that a confinement must rest on a…

October 19, 2026
Liora Lazarus: Do Human Rights Impede Effective Counterterrorism?

Theresa May and Keir Starmer disagree about whether human rights impede effective counterterrorism. Both bring experience at the coalface of this field, May as former Home Secretary, and Starmer as former DPP responsible for the prosecution of terrorist cases. Who is right? There is no point in pretending that human rights do not present legal…

June 15, 2017

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Craig Wells: The Veneer of Contentment: Mustafa, Salford and the Gaps the Deprivation of Liberty Reference Left Behind