Civil Liberties
Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt David Miliband is facing searching questions about his statement to the Commons on Thursday concerning the case of Binyam Mohamed. Earlier in the week, two High Court judges said they could not publish their full summary of the case because Foreign Office counsel told the court the US had threatened to stop… Read more »
By Jonathan Moore “Pervasive and routine” surveillance and collection of information is undermining the public’s right to privacy, a Lords committee reported today. It argued the national DNA database (NDNAD) potentially infringed on civil liberties and could in the future be used for malign purposes. Pointing to the fact the UK now has over four… Read more »
