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Events / Mock Trial / Are Our Civil Liberties Being Unduly Eroded.

Monday 19 November 2007


	Part 1
	Part 2
	A frank debate about the perceived degradation of civil liberties within Scotland, the UK and Europe. Detention without charge, police spy drones, cctv, id cards and challenges to the independence of the judiciary - are these symptoms of a Big Brother state or a necessary response to new threats? With Magnus Linklater as judge, Lord Falconer QC and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC called witnesses to examine this critical issue. Audience members formed the jury to decide whose argument they found more convincing.
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