Papers to note: Law Council submission to the Clarke Inquiry

23/05/2008

The Law Council of Australia has released its submission to the Clarke Inquiry into the case of Dr Mohamed Haneef. The LCA expressed concern that, "throughout the Haneef case, police were operating in the general shadow of Australia’s anti-terror laws, guided more by a vague notion that those laws authorised a different and extraordinary approach than by the precise content of the actual laws pursuant to which they were exercising their powers".

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23 May 2008


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