News: Government Suspends Habeas Corpus

24th November 1988: BBC News announced that Habeas Corpus, allowing the Judiciary to order the detention of individuals without trial. The Home Office claimed that this extraordinary measure was "temporary and undertaken to ease the huge strains put on the legal system in the country arising out of the anti-establishmentarian factions bent on destroying the rule of law and democratic traditions of Great Britain".

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