International Law

Gordon Brown's Terrorist Asset Freezing bureaucracy - petty, incompetent and illegal

On Thursday, the High Court made a Judgment in the case of 5 anonymous people who have been subjected to the Treasury's bureaucratic nightmare of financial asset freezing.

Read the text of the Judgment on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute website:

Neutral Citation Number: [2008] EWHC 869 (Admin)
Case No: PTA 13, 14, 15, 17 & 19/2007

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
24 April 2008

B e f o r e :

Mr Justice Collins

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Between:
A, K, M, Q & G
Applicants
- and -

H.M. Treasury
Respondent

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Essentially the Judge has ruled that the two Asset Freezing financial sanctions Orders in Council should be quashed, but he left room for such sanctions to be properly imposed via an Act of Parliament.

Presumably there will be some new clauses added to the Counter-terrorism Bill 2007-2008, currently oozing its way through Parliament at the moment.

Full post as published by Spy Blog on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).