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Afghan Hijackers

Put to him that the Prime Minister had said after the 7/7 bombing that should legal obstacles arise, the Government would legislate further including amending the human rights act in respect of the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights and asked if there had been thought given to amending the Human Rights Act in relation to deportations, the PMOS said that firstly, as had been indicated by Tony McNulty last night, the Home Office were thinking about appealing on the case of the Afghan hijackers so he had to be careful what he said. There seemed to a misinterpretation about whether the Human Rights Act or the ECHR applied in these cases.

Asked if he was saying that the Prime Minister was not going to look at this, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister’s position, as he had set out on deportations recently, was that we dealt with the issues in front of us, in terms of the Home Office, and if those matters were tested in courts and that test then resulted in a need to review the matter further, we would do that, but we should take it step by step, we should not jump to the end before we had gone through the process.

Questioned about why we didn’t accept that the law was the law in these cases the PMOS said he would not get drawn into particular cases, but there was a need to assure the public that common sense logic should applied to the legal system. Therefore there was a need to rebalance the system when necessary so that that happened. The public had a right to know that they would be protected, they had a right to know that when they were travelling on aeroplanes or going about they normal business that they were safe.

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