Note on two aspects of the NS Bill currently before Parliament.
Evidence
Missing Pieces: Terrorism Legislation and the Online Safety Bill
A Note on why the incorporation of terrorism legislation into the current draft of Online Safety Bill is ineffective.
Response to Schedule 7 Code Consultation
Key point concerns interaction between ‘small boats’, proposed new immigration offence, and self-incrimination.
Response to further Terrorism Sentencing Consultation
The Sentencing Council is consulting on its amended guidelines following changes made by the Counter-Terrorism Sentencing Act 2021.
Consultation Response: Biometrics
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is consulting on abolishing the separate office of Biometrics Commissioner. The quasi-judicial function of the Biometrics Commissioner is one of the safeguards applying to examinations at ports and the Northern Ireland border under Schedule 7 Terrorism Act 2000.
TPIM consultation response
Support for the regime but caveat about legal aid position
Northern Ireland Non-Jury Trials
My response to Northern Ireland Office consultation on renewal of non-jury trials (“Diplock Courts”) in Northern Ireland for a further 2 years.
Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee on cross-border cooperation after Brexit
Brief submission on inquiry into Cross-border co-operation on policing, security and criminal justice after Brexit
Note 3 on Terrorism Sentencing Reforms
This Note on the sentencing reforms in the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill currently before Parliament concerns their impact in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Note 3 on Sentencing Reforms (Scotland and Northern Ireland)
Note 2 on TPIM Reforms
This Note contains my analysis of the proposal in the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill to create enduring TPIMs.