A Well-founded Fear of the Law
A Review of Lisa Heschl, Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders: Establishing Extraterritorial Legal Responsibilities, Intersentia. 2018. 255pp. £75 (HB). ISBN: 978-1-78068-614-1 It is, of course, possible that an individual might encounter a situation that is entirely unprotected by the law, but it is so unlikely that arguments which assert the existence of so-called ‘legal black holes’ should be treated with extreme caution. Again, it is possible that the
Public Inquiries: Who Discloses What, and in Whose Interests?
Among all of the cases in which former Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) officers have successfully pursued applications under section 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005 for restriction of their real and/or cover names, two in particular are likely to linger in the public record. The first, known only by his inquiry reference HN58, courted controversy because he held a management role in the SDS over a period in which covert deployments relevant to the inquiry’s terms of reference