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Stop-and-search powers make a comeback [update]
The Home Office has brought back controversial stop-and-search powers by issuing a remedial order that has gone into effect on 18 March
Street Rights 18 Mar 2011
Section 44: Home Office reaffirms decision to appeal European Court ruling
The Home Office has less than one month left to file an appeal against an European Court of Human Rights' ruling that found Section 44 to be illegal
Street Rights 15 Mar 2010
Terror watchdog calls for end to stop-and-search
Lord Carlile of Berriew, the UK's terror watchdog, has called for Section 44 of the Terrorism Act to be scrapped, weeks after the European Court of Human Rights found it illegal
Street Rights 04 Mar 2010
European court finds Section 44 illegal
The European Court of Human Rights has found that the use of Section 44 to stop-and-search people is illegal and that the powers lack proper 'safeguards against abuse'
Street Rights 12 Jan 2010
Special report: FoI requests show extent of Section 44 use
Photographers in two-thirds of the country are subject to the rule of Section 44, despite Home Office instructions earlier in the year advising police forces against using the powers to prevent or curtail...
Street Rights 21 Dec 2009
City of London Police: 'Stops are justified' [update]
The City of London Police released video footage taken using a camera phone by an Algerian man in 'hostile reconnaissance' to justify stopping photographers
Street Rights 15 Dec 2009
Photojournalist files complaint after Terrorism Act stop
Photojournalist Jess Hurd has filed a complaint with the Independent Police Complaints Commission after she was stopped, searched and detained last year while covering a wedding
Street Rights 13 Dec 2009
Award-winning photographer stopped after photographing a bank's building [third update - 3.30pm]
Grant Smith, a photographer and former chairman of the Association of Photographers, has been briefly detained by Police after photographing the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch building, BJP has learnt
Street Rights 08 Dec 2009
Jail for photographing police?
The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to...
Street Rights 28 Jan 2009
Met pays injured shooter
The Metropolitan Police has settled out of court with a photographer who was hospitalised while covering a demontrations two years ago
Street Rights 05 Mar 2008
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