Posts Tagged ‘Half Years’

A court of appeal ruling has cleared the way for two international terrorism suspects to claim damages for having control orders wrongly imposed on them for three and a half years. The judgment also raises the prospect that a third suspect will not be prosecuted for breaching the terms of his control order, which has also been quashed. The ruling, by three appeal court judges headed by Lord Justice Maurice Kay, upholds a previous high court judgment that the control orders against the three men should not merely be revoked but quashed because they should never have been made in the first place. The control order case involves three terror suspects who, for legal reasons, can only be named as AE, AF and AN. The decision to quash their control orders followed a landmark high court ruling that none of them had been given sufficient disclosure of the evidence against them to support the home secretary’s claims that they were engaged in terrorism-related activities.