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Terrorism Bill

Proceeding contribution from Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 15 February 2006. It occurred during Debate on bills on Terrorism Bill 2005-06.
The report to which the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) referred was the third report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, which was published several weeks ago. That report addressed the Bill, but the report to which the Home Secretary referred was on renewals. The third report criticises the Bill and says that there is a high risk of it being outside the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European convention on human rights because of the use of the word ““glorification””. The Home Secretary cited the words ““glorification”” and ““justification”” in the UN resolution, so why do the definitions in clause 20 include no reference to justification? Is that because there are UN terms that even he considers to be too broad to be related to the offence?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
442 c1431-2 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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