Terror suspects - UK backs off from detention without trial

The Guardian: In response to the damning ruling from the law lords late last year that indefinite detention without trial was a breach of human rights law, the UK's new home secretary Charles Clarke has announced a series of measures aimed at limiting the freedoms of suspects whilst accepting the earlier ruling.... including bans on using the internet and mobile phones ...but other controls which could be imposed would include curfews, tagging, limits on using telephone or the internet and restrictions on their movements Link David Pannick QC, who often acts for the government, has said that house arrest would still amount to detention. Link

The law lords' judgment was so damning of the anti-terror legislation that one of the panel, Lord Hoffman, went as far as saying: "The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws like these."