The High Court rejected the Government’s attempt to put wide-ranging surveillance powers beyond scrutiny, allowing Liberty to proceed with its full challenge the Investigatory Powers Act.
A backroom deal allowing the Home Office to request patient data from the NHS to target people for deportation has been scrapped following a legal challenge from Migrants' Rights Network and Liberty.
The best way to honour those who have given their lives, and those who still are in the forces, is to look after our service people properly and give them the same basic protections that the rest of us enjoy. Second-best justice is not good enough.
Our look might have changed, but our aims remain constant. They're the same as they’ve been since 1934 – to challenge injustice, intolerance and abuse of power, defend freedom and make the UK a fairer, more equal place.
The Government intends to publish a Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill to tackle these crimes and properly support anyone who has suffered because of them. And this week, the Home Affairs Select Committee published its report identifying issues to be addressed when a draft law emerges. But a number of its proposals must go further.
Liberty has launched a legal challenge against the Legal Aid Agency for blocking access to justice for residents seeking to take local authorities to court.
