[DOWNLOAD] "Detention and the Anti-Terrorism Legislation." by University of Western Sydney Law Review * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Detention and the Anti-Terrorism Legislation.
- Author : University of Western Sydney Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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This special edition of the University of Western Sydney Law Review on detention without trial has proven timely. As we entered the final stages of production, the Australian federal, state and territory governments were in the process of pushing through their respective parliaments far-reaching Anti-Terrorism Bills that introduce two unprecedented forms of detention without trial: 'preventative detention' and 'control orders'. Once again, the 'war on terrorism' declared by US President George W Bush and his allies after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States is being used to justify previously unthinkable measures. (1) This edition features two presentations made to a highly successful public forum convened by the UWS Law School in March 2005 on 'Detention Without Trial: What are the Limits?' The first is an address delivered by Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court, entitled 'Liberty, Terrorism and the Courts'. It is a wide-ranging and international review of the extent to which courts have protected liberty against the extension of executive power in the 'war on terror'. The second is a response by myself, 'Detention without trial-a threat to democratic rights', examining the implications of the High Court rulings in Al-Kateb, Al Khafaji and Behrooz, which sanctioned indefinite immigration detention. (2)