Overview of the new 'Protection of Freedoms' bill - UK
1 March 2011 - 12:23pm
An interesting article from the BBC on the proposed new UK Protection of Freedoms bill:
MPs are to debate the government's Protection of Freedoms bill later, which ministers claim will protect millions of people in England and Wales "from unwarranted state intrusion in their private lives".
It is a very wide ranging piece of legislation, which is meant to fulfil Conservative and Lib Dem election pledges to scrap laws introduced by Labour which they believed were damaging civil liberties.