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Top judge backs Human Rights Act

The Human Rights Act is a vital part of the fight against terrorism and should be strongly supported, the Lord Chief Justice has warned.

Resentment and support for terrorism will grow, if immigrants feel their human rights are not being respected, Lord Phillips said in a speech.

Ministers have warned that it may have to be re-examined, if it proves to have hampered the fight against terrorism.

Some measures have been scrapped after being found to break human rights laws.

Control orders had to be brought in to contain foreign terror suspects after the Law Lords ruled detention without trial was illegal under the Act.

Good on you Lord Chief Justice Phillips. This needs to be hammered home time and time again.

No wonder Blair is doing his best to get around the Human Rights Act to satisfy NuLab's authoritarian tendencies.