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| Summary justice needed to fight crime says Blair |
| 10.12.05 (7:55 am) [edit] |
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JAMES KIRKUP AND GERRI PEEV Tony Blair yesterday threatened to impose "summary justice" on people accused of offences including terrorism, organised crime and neighbourhood yobbery. Claiming that the criminal justice system was "passing through a watershed," the Prime Minister suggested a radical and far-reaching shift in legal practice, hinting that many traditional legal protections could be swept away. Mr Blair identified terrorism, brutal, violent, organised crime and antisocial behaviour as "new types of crime" that require new rules. "You can't do it by the rules of the game we have at the moment, you just can't," he told a Downing Street press conference. ...Going beyond that proposal, Mr Blair suggested that police could get more powers to impose fines on suspected offenders, or expel people accused of drug crimes from public rented housing. Only after the penalty had been imposed would the accused have the right to mount a legal appeal to prove their innocence. "Now that is summary justice," Mr Blair told journalists in Downing Street. "It is tough and it is hard, but in my judgment it is the only way to deal with it, and that comes first." Hinting at a shift away from the presumption of innocence as the foundation of the legal code, Mr Blair said: "You have got to put the ability to protect the law-abiding citizen at the centre of it." New rules for organised crime and anti-social behaviour will come in the next few months, but the government's immediate project is the Terrorism Bill published yesterday. The bill's most contentious clause would allow police to detain suspects without charge for up to three months. Mr Blair insisted there could be no compromise on that plan, which is based closely on a request to government from senior police officers. Mr Blair insisted that he was not simply doing everything he was told by the police. "If they are right, then how can I responsibly refuse to do something that will actually protect, the most basic civil liberty, which is the right to life?" If true, this is seriously bad news for the UK... http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2075882005" title="http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2075882005" target="_blank"http://news.scotsman.com/poli... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16237 084&method=full&siteid=94 762&headline=blair-s-yob- war--name_page.html" title="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16237 084&method=full&siteid=94 762&headline=blair-s-yob- war--name_page.html" target="_blank"http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/... http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0" title="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0" target="_blank"http://www.thesun.co.uk/artic...,,2-2005470382,00.html |
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