Anthony Lloyd
Anthony John Leslie Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick (born 9 May 1929) is a British Judge who is best known for chairing the Inquiry into Legislation against Terrorism, which produced the so called Lloyd Report in 1996.
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The Lloyd Report
In December 1995 the Conservative Government set up an inquiry into anti-terrorism legislation in the UK. At that stage British anti-terrorism legislation was limited to a series of temporary emergency powers designed specifically to targeting the IRA and other militant groups in Northern Ireland. The inquiry set up to review the existing legislation was headed by Lord Lloyd and published its report in October 1996.
The report essentially recommended the indefinite extension of the Draconian powers until then limited to Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK and concluded that there was “a continuing need for permanent United Kingdom-wide legislation.”[1] It also recommended that the government develop an official list of organisations prescribed as terrorist - a key mechanism used by states to condemn acts of terrorism committed by enemies whilst exonerating allies. The report was part of a legislative process which led to the Labour Government's Terrorism Act 2000.[2]
Involvement of terrorism expert Paul Wilkinson
The British terrorism expert Paul Wilkinson was an influential figure in the inquiry. Lloyd admitted that his report had “drawn heavily” on Wilkinson’s research,[3] and as well as acting as an advisor to Lloyd, Wilkinson even authored the second part of the report.[4]
Security Commission
Lloyd was Vice-Chairman of the Security Commission 1985–92, and Chairman from 1992–99.[5] The Security Commission is an executive group appointed by the Prime Minister to investigate suspected breaches of security by public servants.
Notes
- ↑ Legislation Against Terrorism (Cm 4178), A consultation paper, Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland by Command of Her Majesty December 1998
- ↑ Part 4. of the Explanatory Notes to Terrorism Act 2000 reads: “The Act builds on the proposals in the Government's consultation document Legislation against terrorism (Cm 4178), published in December 1998. The consultation document in turn responded to Lord Lloyd of Berwick's Inquiry into legislation against terrorism (Cm 3420), published in October 1996.”
- ↑ Colin Brown, ‘Ministers said to be soft on terrorism’, The Independent, 2 November 1996
- ↑ Inquiry Into Legislation Against Terrorism (CM3420, vol 2) (1996), authorship credited in Wilkinson’s entry in Debrett's People of Today (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, November 2007)
- ↑ ‘LLOYD OF BERWICK’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
