UK civil liberties

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• New privacy and civil liberties board to look at security policy, says Nick Clegg

  15 Oct 2014: Lib Dem leader tells parliament’s intelligence and security committee new body would be up and running before election

• The Guardian view on the police and the rights of the press

  7 Oct 2014: Editorial: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act is being misused to unearth journalistic sources. Parliament must tighten it

• Police concede allegations over attempts to turn activists into informers are “serious”

  6 Oct 2014: An investigation has been launched into claims that activists felt intimidated by police who wanted them to spy on other campaigners
  

• Julian Huppert warns Labour likely to bring in snooper’s charter

  5 Oct 2014: Lib Dem civil liberties campaigner says he fears Labour will join Conservatives to push through a communications data bill

• On Liberty review – Shami Chakrabarti exposes the tyranny of the state we’re in

  5 Oct 2014: The civil-rights campaigner inspires and infuriates in a vital book that should get us all arguing, writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

• The Moazzam Begg case shows how Muslims are criminalised

  3 Oct 2014: Letters: Theresa May’s latest proposals will require no evidence, just the perception of harassment, alarm or distress

• Police use of Ripa law threatens our civil liberties and press freedom

  1 Oct 2014:

  Roy Greenslade argues that police are compromising journalists' use of confidential sources

• Are the reforms to legal aid just?

  25 Sep 2014: The justice committee is taking evidence on the impact of government reforms to legal aid. Are they fair? Share your thoughts
  

• Legal aid cuts: 'The forgotten pillar of the welfare state' – a special report

  25 Sep 2014: As parliament takes evidence on the impact of cuts to legal aid, Emma Howard meets the people who are struggling to get help
  

• On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti – 'I don't trust the powerful'

  24 Sep 2014:

  The director of Liberty has written an important, sometimes startling book about the battle ahead. When it comes to human rights, common sense and decency is never enough, writes Gaby Hinsliff

• Legal aid in England and Wales: what is changing?

  9 Sep 2014: As the justice committee takes evidence on the impact of legal aid reforms the figures already show dramatic changes
  

• Police chiefs ordered to disclose more details of undercover infiltration

  9 Sep 2014: Police lose battle to keep secret information about the theft of dead children's identities

• New powers are not needed on passports

  31 Aug 2014: Letters: This kind of politics – law reform as propaganda and distraction – undermines democratic debate

• Councils struggle with tenfold rise in deprivation of liberty assessments

  5 Aug 2014: Fiona Bawdon: Costs of assessing when mentally vulnerable patients can be detained in hospitals and care homes soar following supreme court ruling

• Drip surveillance law faces legal challenge by MPs

  22 Jul 2014:

  Tom Watson and David Davis apply for judicial review of 'emergency' legislation, which was rushed through parliament

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