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House of Lords decides on detention without trial by UK forces in Iraq

On 12 December 2007, the United Kingdom House of Lords, issued a long awaited judgment in the case of R (on the application of Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State of Defence [2007] UKHL. Al-Jedda was a national of both Iraq and the UK who had been detained in October 2004 by UK forces operating in Iraq as part of the multinational force authorised by Security Council Resolutions 1511 and 1546. Al-Jedda claimed, inter alia, that his detention was in violation of his right to liberty under Article 5(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights, as enacted in the UK…