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/ 10 October 2005
The British government is attempting to overturn a court ruling that prevents foreign terrorist suspects from being deported from Britain to Algeria and other countries with poor human rights records. Lawyers acting for the government have found a way of mounting an early challenge to the 1996 ruling from the European court of human rights.
Senior United Kingdom judges fear that a succession of recent laws pushed through by the government could fetter their ability to administer justice and to act as a check on the executive. Their worries at apparent attempts to marginalise the judges are echoed by other senior legal figures, including the former master of the rolls.