Opposition To 42-day Detention
In early June 2008 Phillips as EHRC head voiced that he "remain unpersuaded that the government has yet provided compelling evidence for what our legal advice shows would be an effective suspension of some human rights" Phillips was responding to the growing uproar surrounding proposals to amend counter-terrorism legislation to permit 42 days' detention without charge. He raised the possibility of the EHRC legally testing the legislation by judicial review. In the event, the Brown government maintained the limit on detention without charge at 28 days (although in practice a 14-day limit was observed). Following the installation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government the limit was in January 2011 allowed to revert to 14 days.
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