Posts tagged: Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE QC (2001 – 2011)

Lord Carlile’s Terrorism Act reports, 2002-2010

Independent reports on the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Terrorism Act 2006

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Lord Carlile Q.C.’s reports of on the operation of  the Terrorism Acts 2000 and 2006 in each of the years 2001-2008 may be accessed via the above link, together with the government’s responses to those reviews.

Lord Carlile’s final report (on the operation of the Terrorism Acts in 2009, published in 2010) is missing from the sequence and may be found here.  There was no formal response to that report by the Coalition Government, which however set out its thinking in its Review of Counter-Terrorism and Security Powers in January 2011.

Lord Carlile’s report into Operation Pathway, 2009

Lord Carlile’s report

Government response

On 8 April 2009, a North West counter-terrorism unit (NWCTU) investigation, conducted in conjunction with Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and the Metropolitan Police Forces, resulted in the arrest of 12 Pakistani students for their alleged involvement in a terrorist plot. This investigation was known as Operation Pathway.

The case gave rise to deportation proceedings (before SIAC) and an unsuccessful attempt to apply for judicial review of the detention and search warrants: Sher, Farooq and Sharif v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and others [2010] EWHC 1859 (Admin).  The claimants in the latter case subsequently applied to the European Court of Human Rights (Applications nos. 29062/12, 26289/12 and 29891/12), which communicated their case to the Government in October 2013.

Both the Divisional Court and the European Court of Human Rights have referred to the report of Lord Carlile.