Geoffrey Bindman is a former chairman and vice-president of the Society of Labour Lawyers. He is chairman of the British Institute of Human Rights. Also by Geoffrey Bindman in openDemocracy:
On 3 June Gordon Brown attracted easy headlines by announcing his willingness to be tough in security measures to prevent terrorist incidents and would consider further legislation to do so.
The question posed has only one possible answer: we can and must afford them. Without them we abandon the Enlightenment and any claim we have to seek a just society
Since 11 September 2001 citizens of western states have seen a steady erosion of the legal safeguards previously available to those suspected of crime. At the same time the powers
Criminalising hate-speech is not new in Britain. Incitement to racial hatred became a crime in 1965 in the first Race Relations Act (followed by a second act in 1976, and
The experience of the hundreds of detainees held without charge or trial by the United States in its military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has become notorious around the
