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9 results found for '"National Council for Civil Liberties"' in Keywords.
Official Secrets Act reform (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Patricia Hewitt of the National Council for Civil Liberties attacks the Governments proposals for the reform of the Official Secrets Act, which she states will remove to the ability to challenge Government...
Thames Valley Police Notebook computer (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Patricia Hewitt, National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), on the employment of a computer called the Thames Valley Notebook, used by Thames Valley Police. Male interviewer not identified....
National Council for Civil Liberties report on police powers (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on recommendations by the National Council for Civil Liberties on changes in the law to protect the individual and prevent the abuse of police powers. Includes interview with NCCL spokesman Peter...
NCCL on prison grievance procedure (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Following the criminal convictions of a number of Hull prison officers, Peter Thornton of the National Council for Civil Liberties comments on the present unsatisfactory internal grievance procedure whereby...
NCCL recommendations on prison grievance procedure (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Thornton of the National Council for Civil Liberties on its recommendations to the May Committee of inquiry into the prison service, including the appointment of an independent prison ombudsman to...
Decision makers (1981)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Decision Makers-the right to march and use of the Public Order Act to ban marches, presented by Terry Dignan. Fears of violent clashes at National Front and Anti-Nazi League marches have led to blanket bans...
IBA ban Channel 4 programme on MI5 phone tapping (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the Channel 4 programme MI5’s Official Secrets which was banned by the IBA shortly before transmission last night on the grounds it would have contravened the Official Secrets Act. During the...
Sylvia Scaffardi on civil liberty (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with one of the founding members of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Sylvia Scaffardi, on the importance of the organisation today, in the wake of the miners’ strike, decisions recently...
Harriet Harman on MI5 case ruling (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour MP Harriet Harman and Neil Kinnock’s former press secretary Patricia Hewitt have won a human rights ruling against the British internal security service, MI5, by whom they had been classified as...