Talk:Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

There are a number of problems with this article :

Firstly, the government cannot use the Parliament Act, since by convention it can only be used by a government to put manifesto commitments through. This bill does not constitute a manifesto commitment.

Secondly, there is no evidence that the DUP had an "11th hour switch", the DUP did not publicly declare any intention to vote against the bill. In fact, the DUP has a record of voting in favour of such legislation, and their vote this time around was entirely consistent with their policies.

I've cleaned up the article to try to make it a bit more encylopaedic .. comments welcome.

ComradeStalin1979 (talk) 21:06, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Bah. I can't fix it, the damn thing needs rewritten.

ComradeStalin1979 (talk) 21:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Photographing police
There is an article about this bill here - Jail for photographing police?. It is feared the police will use it to harass photographers as they have been doing already using existing legislation. --jmb (talk) 11:31, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments attributed to Gordon Brown
The article says "Gordon Brown reaffirmed that the police have a legal right to restrict photography in public places, and stated "the law applies to photographers as it does to anybody else in a public place"." but there's no evidence cited of this statement. Please could whoever added this sentence also provide some evidence? Dominic Sayers (talk) 10:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC) See or  or just Google the quotes "the law applies to photographers as it does to anybody else in a public place" and/or "the police have a legal right to restrict photography" for 269 hits, or explore the existing citations, especially  which quotes Brown (as his response to a petition). Position affirmed by Jacquie Smith in writing, see and Downing Street   --Philogo (talk) 22:32, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Right to silence
It was stated that the act included "Removal of right to silence protection". Not according to the BBC report cited, it doesn't. And there's nothing in the wording of the act which could mean this. Fences and windows (talk) 22:56, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Examples of police using s. 76
A PCSO questioned a man for taking a photo of his car:. What's doubly daft about this is that s.76 doesn't apply to PCSOs! Fences and windows (talk) 21:58, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * RTA. It specifically says:

Mr Sleath said a PCSO told him that under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 he was not allowed to take photographs of police officers and vehicles. Nothing to do with S.76. The only mention was added in by the reporter as part of the background. ninety:one 22:23, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * My mistake. The PCSO just plucked it out of thin air, which is even worse. OK, not related to s.76., but to Photography and the law Fences and windows (talk) 02:50, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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