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Secret court asked to quash a decade of MI5 surveillance warrants following 'systemic breaches'

Human rights organisations Liberty and Privacy International are seeking through a joint claim to nullify the MI5 data capture warrants signed off by a series of home secretaries. The warrants, which allowed MI5 to intercept vast amounts of private and sensitive information, had been “obtained as a result of material non-disclosures” according to Tom De La Mare QC, acting for the two human rights groups. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the UK’s most secret court, heard that MI5 had unlawfully gathered vast amounts of information that may have extended to millions of citizens, including lawyers and journalists. De La Mare told the tribunal that the warrants should therefore be quashed, since full and frank disclosure - on which there had been a "conscious failure" to engage within MI5 - would have revealed that they were unlawful. The tribunal heard that not acting to quash the warrants would reward “systemic” wrongdoing among intelligence ....

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Home Office 'unlawfully' approved MI5 bulk surveillance warrants

The Home Office has unlawfully allowed MI5 to gather vast amounts of the public’s data by wrongly approving bulk surveillance warrants, Britain’s most secret court heard today. The Human Right’s groups Liberty and Privacy International told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that MI5 has provided false information to obtain warrants for bulk surveillance. The Home Office failed to investigate breaches by MI5, some of which date as far back as 2010, and as a result successive Home Secretaries continued to issue unlawful surveillance warrants, the court heard. Liberty lawyer Megan Goulding said that the case showed that the UKs surveillance laws are not fit for purpose and fail to offer adequate safeguards to protect the public from abuse. ....

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Lord chancellor faces JR over immigration detainees' legal advice | News

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Christianity being 'wrongly promoted and privileged in the classroom' court hears

RELIGIOUS education within Northern Ireland's schools involves an unlawful and exclusive "proselytising" of Christianity, the High Court has heard. ....

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