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Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 152 (26 Feb 2009)

Tim Boswell: ...that she has implied consent for it. However, if we feel that people are taking over from us, we lose all faith. The convenience and exigencies of Government, and even the real issues about terrorism, do not by themselves justify selling civil liberties lightly. If we have to do it—it is a sad analogy, but I will use it—I would much rather that we gave ground like a first world...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 152 (26 Feb 2009)

Tim Boswell: ...does not directly involve the Government, but it is the kind of thing that makes us sit up and worry. The important principle of consent must be balanced against the principle of fighting crime and terrorism, and other major Government policies—I agree with what was said on how wide those principles have been taken. On the other hand, there is the feeling of public unease and...

Public Bill Committee: : Clause 11 (10 Feb 2009)

Tim Boswell: I have two quick points for my hon. Friend to consider. First, on the legislative creep that has arisen over counter-terrorism, is he aware that I had an interesting conversation with an entirely sensible Icelandic MP who expressed great resentment of the procedure against her country under counter-terrorism legislation? Secondly, on the argument that he is making  on the amendments on...

Points of Order: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights (13 Oct 2008) has video

Tim Boswell: ...human rights, which is a pellucid document. Does he not agree that all those derogations or qualifications of the undiluted human rights mixture—for example, the needs for national security, terrorism and, indeed, the clashing of rights—are explicitly allowed for? It is the conditions under which those derogations operate that may be of interest.

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 12 (26 Oct 2006)

Tim Boswell: ...position may be more sensitive in the event than in the statement. It could be summed up in the words of Lear: “I will do such things— What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth.”

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Tim Boswell: I have much sympathy with what the hon. and learned Gentleman is saying. Can he clarify for the benefit of us lay people that any such act of condoning or supporting terrorism would not have to be specific to any particular act that that person might commit, or that another person might commit, but that it would be a kind of fishing expedition for the future? Unless we all signed up today...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Tim Boswell: ...seems to me that the distinction is between intent and effect. My hon. Friend may wish to consider a situation in which one person has a highly malicious intent to incite people and to celebrate terrorism but whose style of doing so is so objectionable to the ordinary person that it is counterproductive because it revolts them, as against another person who makes ill-judged comments...

Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Amendment) Bill (4 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...ago, while driving my car, I was pulled over by a group of uniformed police officers who said that they were from the Ministry of Defence and wished to search my car under the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000. They did so perfectly correctly and gave me a chit for doing so. There was no question of a prior moving traffic offence, suspicion or anything else. It was a peremptory...

Belmarsh Judgment (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Tim Boswell: I have no particular expertise to offer the House in relation to terrorism, and no legal qualification, but we all have a common duty to address the civil liberties of this country's subjects, as has been done eloquently in this debate. It has been generally accepted, with possible reservations, that we all know that there is a problem with terrorism, and it is possible to have slightly...

Belmarsh Judgment (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Tim Boswell: Is not this the dilemma that the Minister faces? If the detention orders apply to only a handful of foreign nationals, for the reasons she has given, and if the terrorism threat to this country is much more extensive—for the purposes of the debate, we must accept that it is—it seems almost paradoxical to say that the existence of those powers, confined to foreign nationals, is in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Tourism (29 Mar 1990)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...as a major revenue earner in all parts of the United Kingdom, particularly in Northern Ireland? Will he confirm that those who visit the countryside of Northern Ireland are as much at risk from terrorism as from a case of snakebite?