Lords vote against Blair's terror law - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News: "'They have to be better than the awfulness of what is in this bill,' Helena Kennedy, a senior lawyer and peer in Blair's Labour party, said of the amendments.
Ministers must now decide whether to accept the changes or risk losing the bill entirely.
Blair is seeking to push the legislation through parliament by March 14, when current anti-terrorism powers allowing indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects expire.
The High court ruled late last year that those measures infringed basic rights and should be scrapped." helena Kennedy is a labour law lord who has been strongly opposed to this Blair Government on many issues. This time Blair's own mentor, the ex-Lord Chancellor Lord Irving came out against him. I had half expected the Tories to buckle in face of being seen as soft on terror. But this gross assault on Liberty has been beaten by over two to one. Parliament still works for us! But for how much longer?
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