UK: Joint Committee on Human Rights report on Renewal of Control Orders Legislation 2011 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt201011/jtselect/jtrights/106/10602.htmCalls for all existing control orders to be reviewed and expresses concern that "control orders will continue for another nine months to be used, unnecessarily, to 'park' or 'warehouse' individuals beyond the reach of the criminal justice system, and in a way which positively obstructs any realistic possibility of prosecution.
[See also: Statewatch analysis http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/jan/03uk-control-orders.htm
Neither of these commitments has been enacted. Control orders have been abolished in name alone: amended, not replaced. Crucially, TPIMs will retain its predecessor's most objectionable characteristic of operating outside the criminal justice system and bypassing judicial process. Under the new system individuals will continue to be punished without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence heard in closed courts that they are not permitted to hear or contest. TPIMs will restrict suspects' civil liberties less severely than control orders currently do, but the new system will continue to undermine the presumption of innocence and remains an inadequate substitute to a fair trial.

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