Abstract
The famous House of Lords Belmarsh decision - in which eight Lords quashed the United Kingdom government's 2001 derogation order and declared incompatible with European Convention rights Section 23 of the Anti Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (2001)("ATCSA"), authorizing the Home Secretary to detain without trial suspected international terrorists who cannot, for legal or practical reasons, be deported from the United Kingdom
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Loevy, Dr. Karin
(2015)
"What Is An Emergency? The Legal Politics Of Defining The "Un-Definable","
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law: Vol. 22:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/ilsajournal/vol22/iss1/6
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