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...

House	Date	Subject	Policy vote
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Public emergency threatening the life of the nation — approved	minority
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Terrorist certification by Home Secretary	minority
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Indefinite detention of suspected terrorists	minority
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Special Immigration Appeals Commission	minority
Commons	25 Feb 2004	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 — Privy Counsel Report	minority
Commons	3 Mar 2004	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 — Renewal of indefinite detention	minority
Commons	9 Nov 2005	Terrorism Bill — Extension Of Period Of Detention to 90 Days	Majority
Commons	9 Nov 2005	Terrorism Bill — Extension Of Period Of Detention to 28 Days — but not 60	abstain
Commons	11 Jun 2008	Counter-Terrorism Bill — Extension of Maximim Period of Police Detention Without Charge in Terror Cases from 28 to 42 Days	minority
Commons	11 Jun 2008	Counter-Terrorism Bill — Extension of period of detention to 42 days — Order	minority
Lords	13 Oct 2008	Counter-Terrorism Bill — No extension of period of detention beyond 28 days	Majority
Commons	14 Jul 2010	Terrorism Act 2006 (Disapplication of Section 25) Order 2010	minority (strong)

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

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