The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 564
Court of Appeal
A and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
X and another v Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2002] EWCA Civ 1502
2002 Oct 7,
8,
9;
25
Lord Woolf CJ, Brooke and Chadwick LJJ
Human rights
— Right to liberty
— Suspected international terrorists
— Derogation from human rights obligations allowing detention of non-national suspected terrorists who could not be deported
— Whether derogation justified
— Whether public emergency threatening life of nation
— Whether measures strictly required by exigencies of situation
— Whether unjustifiable discrimination against non-nationals
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 5, 14
—
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (c 24), s. 23
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (Designated Derogation) Order 2001 (SI 2001/3644)
— Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953) (Cmd 8969), art 15