News & events
19-01-2010
Compensation for control orders is a distraction
Andy Worthington argues in the Guardian that instead of tinkering at the edges of the control order regime, questions should be raised about its fundamental legality.
Supporters of the government's right to hold men under a form of house arrest, when it alleges that they have some sort of involvement with terrorist activities, but is unwilling to produce any evidence to support its claims, are fuming after a high court judge accepted that the basis on which two men were deprived of their liberty was unlawful, and suggested that they might be able to claim compensation from the government.