Policy #1039: "No detention without charge or trial"

This is the votes by vote definition of Public Whip policy #1039: "No detention without charge or trial". You may want to read an introduction to policies, or read more about Public Whip.

Someone who believes that there is no excuse to arrest and detain suspects without charging them with an offence and bringing a prosecution in a court of law on the basis of the evidence would have voted like this...

HouseDateSubjectPolicy vote
Commons21 Nov 2001Public emergency threatening the life of the nation — approved minority
Commons21 Nov 2001Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Terrorist certification by Home Secretary minority
Commons21 Nov 2001Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Indefinite detention of suspected terrorists minority
Commons21 Nov 2001Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Special Immigration Appeals Commission minority
Commons25 Feb 2004Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 — Privy Counsel Report minority
Commons3 Mar 2004Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 — Renewal of indefinite detention minority
Commons9 Nov 2005Terrorism Bill — Extension Of Period Of Detention to 90 Days Majority
Commons9 Nov 2005Terrorism Bill — Extension Of Period Of Detention to 28 Days — but not 60 abstain
Commons11 Jun 2008Counter-Terrorism Bill — Extension of Maximim Period of Police Detention Without Charge in Terror Cases from 28 to 42 Days minority
Commons11 Jun 2008Counter-Terrorism Bill — Extension of period of detention to 42 days — Order minority
Lords13 Oct 2008Counter-Terrorism Bill — No extension of period of detention beyond 28 days Majority
Commons14 Jul 2010Terrorism Act 2006 (Disapplication of Section 25) Order 2010 minority (strong)

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