In The Highest Degree Odious Detention without trial in wartime Britain

In The Highest Degree Odious Detention without trial in wartime Britain

Describes the history of wartime detention: the purposes which it served, the administrative procedures and safeguards employed, conflicts between the Home Office and Security Service which surrounded its use, the part played by parliment, and by the courts in restraining executive power, and the effect of detention upon the lives of the individuals concerned, very few of whom posed any threat to national security.

Simpson, Brian

Clarendon Press 1992,453pp, index

SR S 96