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to prevent or minimise harm or loss to some other person, or the public; to clear up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement; in the interests of justice for the detainee to have put to them, and have an opportunity to comment on, information concerning the offence which has come to light since they were charged or informed they might be prosecuted. But post-charge questioning rarely happens in practice. However, in order to give the police and prosecutors confidence that they do not have to wait until the end of the detention period to make a charge, the 2008 Act allows them to resume questioning after charge. This idea may be especially important if a charge is made under the
Threshold Test under the Code for Crown Prosecutors, 2010, para.5. These measures are not likely to have much impact since they involve dire problems of admissibility, given the circumstances of a pending trial which is meant to be controlled by a judge rather than the police. More likely, the police will seek adverse inferences from silence rather than responses to lengthy questioning.
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A Parliamentary written question about the policy regarding police preventing members of the public from taking photographs in public places hasn't been answered. But the Home Office issued a circular to the police in 2009 which reminds them that 'Legitimate journalistic activity (such as covering a
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An opposition amendment changing the phrase "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" with the words "with the intention that it is useful..." was withdrawn after the
Minister explained that the clause merely restated earlier laws applying to the armed
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Parliamentary debate on this law was limited because in earlier versions of the Bill the offence of eliciting or publishing information "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" only applied to people who were or had been members of Her Majesty's Forces, and
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Section 76 (Offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc.) came into force on 15 February 2009 making it an offence to elicit, attempt to elicit, or publish information "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" about:
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demonstration for a newspaper) is likely to constitute such an excuse. Similarly an innocent tourist or other sight-seer taking a photograph of a police officer is likely to have a reasonable excuse.'
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block, who normally vote with the Conservative Party, not voted for it. Allegations of a political bribe for these votes were denied.
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The day after the vote, the Conservative front bench Home Affairs spokesman,
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debate that occurred in 2006 that was narrowly lost by a vote in Parliament.
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in which none of the other main parties stood a candidate.
20:. For other UK anti-terrorism acts passed since 2000, see
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The Act as passed contains various notable provisions:
562:"Photographers fear they are target of new terror law"
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Removal of the prohibition on post-charge questioning.
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The progress of the bill at the UK Parliament website
1044:"Government abandons secret inquests in terror bill"
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Powers to seize the assets of convicted terrorists.
721:Baroness Falkner of Margravine (21 October 2008).
353:suddenly resigned from Parliament in protest and
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723:"Counter-Terrorism Bill - Committee 4th sitting"
537:. British Journal of Photography. Archived from
185:Photographs of police officers in public places
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1017:"Uproar at plan to hold inquests in secret"
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105:History of passage through Parliament
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3465:United Kingdom statutory instruments
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533:Laurent, Olivier (28 January 2009).
1066:"Secret inquest plans brought back"
862:"Brown wins crunch vote on 42 days"
754:. homeoffice.gov.uk. Archived from
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1113:to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.
1042:Watt, Nicholas (15 October 2008).
986:Jaqui Smith MP (13 October 2008).
951:"Peers throw out 42-day detention"
674:. 13 February 2008. Archived from
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191:Legality of recording by civilians
119:Revised text of statute as amended
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929:"No deals on 42 days, says Brown"
752:"Home Office circular 012 / 2009"
736:Bob Spink MP (26 November 2008).
615:"Is it a crime to take pictures?"
587:Vallee, Marc (12 February 2009).
560:Adetunji, Jo (12 February 2009).
409:The citation of this act by this
166:Violent and Sex Offender Register
824:"The Code for Crown Prosecutors"
535:"Jail for photographing police?"
428:"Counter-Terrorism Bill 2007-08"
255:communications service providers
136:Parliament of the United Kingdom
50:Parliament of the United Kingdom
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1101:The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
1091:The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
901:Leppard, David (1 June 2008).
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509:"Counter-Terrorism Act 2008"
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161:Longer terrorism sentences.
98:Status: Current legislation
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442:"Terror bill: What's left"
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316:Post-charge questioning
197:Photography and the law
144:Parliamentary ping-pong
1805:Parliament of Scotland
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1046:. London: The Guardian
953:. BBC. 13 October 2008
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1178:Charter of Liberties
325:Abandoned provisions
272:The protest outside
263:web hosting services
3283:Halsbury's Statutes
1195:of states preceding
1193:Acts of parliaments
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864:. BBC. 11 June 2008
849:Criminal Law Review
804:on 11 December 2009
430:. House of Commons.
65:terrorist financing
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1004:. 24 January 2008.
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448:. 14 October 2008
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374:coroner's inquest
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