Sentences with phrase «afghan detainees»

He has also represented the Canadian Forces provost marshall before the Military Police Complaints Commission during the public interest hearings concerning the transfer of Afghan detainees by the Canadian Forces during the conflict in Afghanistan.

On Saturday the Federal government released the terms of reference for the Iacobucci inquiry on Afghan detainees.

Finally, CCLA remains concerned that systemic issues which enabled the reported transfer of Afghan detainees by Canadians to the risk of torture has not been addressed — CCLA is concerned that Canada has not only violated its international law obligations, but such actions may put Canadian soldiers at risk in the future.

The organization wanted to seek leave to intervene at the Federal Court of Appeal on the issue of Afghan detainees.

Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat who has testified before a Parliamentary committee concerning his warnings to the government about the torture of Afghan detainees captured by the Canadian military and turned over to Afghan authorities, has released a sixteen - page letter in which he addresses the claims of the government concerning his testimony.

Haquim v. Secretary of State for Defence (High Court, Administrative Division): led by Martin Westgate QC, claim relating to the transfer of Afghan detainees from UK custody to Afghan detention.

Haquim v. Secretary of State for Defence (High Court, Administrative Division): junior counsel in claim relating to the transfer of Afghan detainees from UK custody to Afghan detention.

I put it to Lord Bach that in his time at the MoJ there were a number of politically controversial cases, such as those over the treatment of Afghan detainees and the Gurkha immigration cases, that led to disagreements between ministers and the Legal Services Commission, which then administered legal aid: «We (he and Jack Straw, the then Lord Chancellor) resisted pretty well,» he says, the requests to interfere in such cases, «but it's not the sort of pressure a minister should be put under.

He prorogued again the following year, halting House of Commons committee hearings into the treatment of Afghan detainees and killing a number of pieces of legislation.»

British soldiers have held Afghan detainees captive without trial or access to legal help for up to 14 months, it has emerged.

Not exact matches

Read through a few of the follow - up reports included in yesterday's release and you will note references to transferred detainees who were subsequently released by Afghan officials.

He said usually only around 20 Afghans were being held at any one time, but blamed British lawyers for raising question - marks about the way the detainees would be treated by the Afghan authorities.