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5 - The United Kingdom Responds: A Legislative War on Terrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Kent Roach
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University of Toronto
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Introduction

The experience with terrorism in Northern Ireland has been extensive, producing more deaths than 9/11, albeit over a much longer period. Although much attention has been focused on American antiterrorism efforts in the wake of 9/11, British antiterrorism laws have been much more influential in other parts of the world. The United Kingdom's Terrorism Act, 2000, and, in particular, its broad definition of terrorism, have been the starting point for definitions of terrorism in Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and elsewhere. Australia has followed subsequent British developments with respect to the imposition of control orders and offenses that target speech associated with terrorism. The British influence not only projects forward from 9/11 but backward. As discussed in Chapter 3, British colonial emergency rule had a lasting impact on antiterrorism in Singapore, Malaysia, and Israel. Indeed, the roots of many practices, such as broad liability rules that attempt to prevent interference with essential services, indeterminate administrative detention, the use of secret evidence, administrative orders restricting the activities of terrorist suspects in the community, special courts, and the regulation of speech associated with terrorism, all have origins in the counter-insurgency practices of British colonial rule.

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The 9/11 Effect
Comparative Counter-Terrorism
, pp. 238 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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