Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee report: Call for a review of all counter-terrorism legislation passed since 11 September 2001: Counter–Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Seventeenth Report): Bringing Human Rights Back In (pdf): "Since September 11th
Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee report: Call for a review of all counter-terrorism legislation passed since 11 September 2001: Counter–Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Seventeenth Report): Bringing Human Rights Back In (pdf):
“Since September 11th 2001 the Government has continuously justified many of its counterterrorism measures on the basis that there is a public emergency threatening the life of the nation. We question whether the country has been in such a state for more than eight years. This permanent state of emergency inevitably has a deleterious effect on public debate about the justification for counter-terrorism measures…
“What is needed is… a thoroughgoing, evidence-based review of the necessity for, and proportionality of, all the counter-terrorism legislation passed since 11 September 2001.”
See also: Review all anti-terrorism laws, say MPs (BBC News, link) and Government is told stance on torture has no legal basis (Guardian, link)