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CPS Seminar: An Unwarranted Intrusion? |
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23 February 2010, 6.15 for 6.30pm, 55 Tufton Street, SW1, Centre for Policy Studies
New research from Big Brother Watch (pdf) has revealed that there are nearly 15,000 officers in local councils nationwide who can enter private property without requiring a warrant or police officer escort. The report builds on the 2006 Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet Crossing the Threshold by Harry Snook (pdf), which detailed the number of ways the State can enter a private home as of right - there were 266 distinct powers of entry then, and 1,043 now. Our panel of speakers will discuss the implications of this for civil liberties and whether action is needed to rebalance power in the relationship between the state and the citizen. Chaired by Jill Kirby, with speakers Dominic Grieve QC MP, Henry Porter, Harry Snook and Alex Deane.
Read more... | Watch videos of the speakers... | Read Henry Porter's blog...
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'You're filming for fun? I don't believe you' |
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15 December 2009, guardian.co.uk
Police community support officers stopped Italian student Simona Bonomo under anti-terrorism legislation for filming buildings in London. Moments later, she was arrested by other officers, held in a police cell and fined. She talks Paul Lewis through the footage she recorded of her conversation with the PSCOs
Watch the video...
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BBC photographer on being stopped by police |
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29 November 2009, BBC News
BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned for taking photographs in Westminster. Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, for which he takes photographs, Mr Overs said he was worried that policing against terrorism was making the UK feel like "the Eastern Bloc".
Watch the video...
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Tim Yeo MP uses Parliamentary privilege to accuse council of 'kidnapping' |
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26th November 2009, Daily Mail
A senior Tory MP has accused a council of 'kidnapping' a child after a
couple were forced to give up their nine-week-old baby girl for
adoption.
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Manchester man arrested for alleged sewer-grate photography |
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March 3, 2009, Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Still think that if you're innocent, you have nothing to fear from
surveillance and control laws? Have a look at this news-video about
Stephen Clarke, a man who was accused of taking pictures of
sewer-gratings in Manchester and arrested. Though the police couldn't
find any photos of sewer-gratings on his phone (and even though "what a
sewer grating looks like" isn't a piece of specialized terrorist
intelligence), he was held on suspicion of planning an act of terror,
imprisoned for two days while the police searched his home, his phone
and his computer...
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Lord Bingham at the Convention on Modern Liberty |
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February 28 2009, Convention on Modern Liberty TRANSCRIPT • VIDEO 12:23 min
Watch Lord Bingham's informative and powerful speech to the Convention on Modern Liberty on 28 February 2009 at the Institute of Education in London.
Watch at guardian.co.uk | watch at CML website | Read the transcript...
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Henry Porter gives evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights |
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March 3 2008,
UK Joint Committee on Human Rights VIDEO 1:24:41
A British Bill of rights: Henry Porter, Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP and Professor Vernon Bogdanor give evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights.
Watch the video... | Read Henry Porter's Submission to the JCHR...
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Peter Tatchell interviews Henry Porter |
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Friday, 19 October 2007, Talking with Tatchell, 18 Doughty Street.com
Civil liberties are being eroded on a scale unprecedented in peacetime.
In this 30 minute interview Henry Porter and Peter Tatchell discuss how
Britain's New Labour government is undermining the rights of the
individual and strengthening the power of the state.
Watch Talking with Tatchell : Labour's subversion of Liberty...
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