Government Responsibilities

[Caspar Bowden]

> Is she the ex-NCCL (called Liberty now I believe) lawyer?

Indeed she is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/people_in_parliament/newsid_920
00/92238.stm

As explained on http://www.five.org.uk/security/mi5org/mi5org.htm
"The ruling by the European Commission on Human Rights that MI5 surveillance
of Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt, former Legal Officer and General
Secretary of NCCL/Liberty, was in breach of the European Convention on Human
Rights, led to the Security Service Act 1989, which recognised MI5 for the
first time."

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