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Session 2007-2008 Reports Oral and Written Evidence Uncorrected Oral Evidence Memoranda


Reports

	17 July 2008	Twenty-seventh Report	The Use of Restraint in Secure Training Centres: Government Response to the Committee's Eleventh Report
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	15 July 2008	Twenty-sixth Report	Legislative Scrutiny: Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill
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	30 June 2008	Twenty-fifth Report	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Twelfth Report): Annual Renewal of 28 Days 2008
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	26 June 2008	Twenty-fourth Report	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Government Responses to the Committee's Twentieth and Twenty-first Reports and other correspondence
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	26 June 2008	Twenty-third Report	Legislative Scrutiny: Government Replies
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	23 June 2008	Twenty-second Report	Government Response to the Committee's Fourteenth Report of Session 2007-08: Data Protection and Human Rights
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	5 June 2008	Twenty-first Report	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Eleventh Report): 42 Days and Public Emergencies
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	14 May 2008	Twentieth Report	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Tenth Report): Counter-Terrorism Bill
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	13 May 2008	Nineteenth Report	Legislative Scrutiny: Education and Skills Bill
		HTML version (browsable) PDF version	HL 107/HC 553

	6 May 2008	Eighteenth Report	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2007-08: The Work of the Committee in 2007 and the State of Human Rights in the UK
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	28 April 2008	Seventeenth Report	Legislative Scrutiny: 1) Employment Bill; 2) Housing and Regeneration Bill; 3) Other Bills
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	31 March 2008	Sixteenth Report	Scrutiny of Mental Health Legislation: Follow Up
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	25 March 2008	Fifteenth Report	Legislative Scrutiny
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	14 March 2008	Fourteenth Report	Data Protection and Human Rights
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	11 March 2008	Twelfth Report	Legislative Scrutiny: 1) Health and Social Care Bill and 2) Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill: Government Response
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	7 March 2008	Eleventh Report	The Use of Restraint in Secure Training Centres
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	6 March 2008	Seventh Report	A Life Like Any Other? Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
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	29 February 2008	Thirteenth Report	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2006-07: The Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
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	20 February 2008	Tenth Report	Counter�Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Ninth Report): Annual Renewal of Control Orders Legislation 2008
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	7 February 2008	Ninth Report	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Eighth Report): Counter-Terrorism Bill
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	6 February 2008	Eighth Report	Legislative Scrutiny: Health and Social Care Bill
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	1 February 2008	Sixth Report	The Work of the Committee in 2007 and the State of Human Rights in the UK
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	25 January 2008	Fifth Report	Legislative Scrutiny: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
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	15 January 2008	Fourth Report	Government Response to the Committee�s Twenty�First Report of Session 2006�07: Human Trafficking: Update
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	3 January 2008	Third Report	Legislative Scrutiny: 1) Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill; 2) Other Bills
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	14 December 2007	Second Report	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: 42 days
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	16 November 2007	First Report	Government Response to the Committee's Eighteenth Report of Session 2006-07: The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare
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Oral and Written Evidence

	21 May 2008	British Bill of Rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP and Mr Michael Wills MP: uploaded on 30 June HC 150-vi

	10 March 2008	A British Bill of Rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Mr Kenny MacAskill, Mr Brian Peddie and Mr Paul Cackette; and Mr Michael Clancy OBE and Ms Christine O�Neill: uploaded on 19 May HC 150-v

	3 March 2008	A British Bill of Rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Professor Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Justice Maurice Kay; Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP QC, Professor Vernon Bogdanor and Mr Henry Porter: uploaded on 19 May HC 150-iv

	28 January 2008	A British Bill of Rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Professor Chris Sidoti, Professor Brice Dickinson and Professor Graham Smith; and Graham Smith: uploaded on 12 March HC 150-iii

	14 January 2008	Human Rights Policy and Data Protection
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Mr Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, and Mr Jonathan Bamford, Assistant Commissioner; uploaded on 22 January 2008 HC 132-ii

	14 January 2008	A British Bill of Rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Mr Roger Jeary, Director of Research and Mr John Usher, Legal Officer, Unite the Union; Ms Hannah Reed, Senior Employment Rights Officer, Trades Union Congress; Ms Carolyne Willow, National Co-ordinator, Children�s Rights Alliance for England; uploaded on 22 January 2008 HC 150-ii

	3 December 2007	A British Bill of Rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Professor Sandra Fredman, Professor in Law and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford University; Mr Martin Howe QC, member of the Conservative Party's Policy Commission on a Bill of Rights; Professor Francesca Klug, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Ms Katie Ghose, British Institute of Human Rights; Mr Jago Russell, Liberty; Mr Roger Smith, Justice; uploaded on 10 January 2008 HC 150-i

	17 December 2007	Counter-terrorism policy and human rights
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Professor Clive Walker, Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds; Mr Neil Garnham QC, Special Advocate, 1 Crown Office Row; uploaded on 4 January 2008 HC 199-i

	26 November 2007	Human Rights Policy and Data Protection
Corrected Oral Evidence given by Michael Wills MP, Human Rights Minister, Ministry of Justice Edward Adams, Head of the Human Rights Division, Ministry of Justice; uploaded on 4 January 2008 HC 132-i

Uncorrected Oral Evidence

	8 July 2008	Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill
Uncorrected Oral Evidence given by Sir Ken Macdonald QC and Mr Patrick O'Connor QC; uploaded on 9 July 2008 HC 950-i

	24 June 2008	Policing and Protest
Uncorrected Oral Evidence given by The Dr Eric Metcalfe, Human Rights Policy Director, JUSTICE and Mr James Welch, Legal Director, Liberty; uploaded on 30 June 2008 HC 826-i

	29 April 2008	UNCAT: Allegations of torture and inhuman treatment carried out by British troops in Iraq
Uncorrected Oral Evidence given by Mr Kevin Laue and Mr Phil Shiner; uploaded on 8 May 2008 HC 527-i

	10 March 2008	A British Bill of Rights
Uncorrected Oral Evidence given by Mr Kenny MacAskill, a Member of the Scottish Parliament, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Mr Brian Peddie and Mr Paul Cackette, Legal and Constitutional Office, Scottish Government; Mr Michael Clancy OBE, Director of Law Reform, and Ms Christine O�Neill, Convenor, Constitutional Law Sub-committee, Law Society of Scotland.; uploaded on 14 March 2008 HC 150-v

	3 March 2008	A British Bill of Rights
Uncorrected Oral Evidence given by Baroness Hale of Richmond, a Member of the House of Lords, and Lord Justice Maurice Kay; Professor Vernon Bogdanor, Brasenose College, Oxford, Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP and Mr Henry Porter; uploaded on 14 March 2008 HC 150-iv

	19 February 2008	Immigration and Human Rights
Uncorrected Oral Evidence given by Liam Byrne MP, Minister of State, Home Office and Lin Homer, Chief Executive, Border and Immigration Agency.; uploaded on 27 February 2008 HC 357-i

Memoranda
	Counter-terrorism policy and human rights	HC 199
	A British Bill of Rights	HC 150
	Data Protection and Human Rights	HC 132