Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation

Clive Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law at the University of Leeds. He was awarded a Ph.D in 1982 and an LL.D in 2015. He became a Solicitor in 1978 and a King's Counsel (Hon) in 2016. His research and funded projects have produced multiple books and papers on terrorism laws, policies, and practices, as well as on miscarriages of justice. He has provided advice to UK and overseas Parliamentary and governmental inquiries. He is currently Special Adviser to the UK Government's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.Dr Alan Greene is a Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights at Birmingham Law School. His research examines the limits of constitutionalism in the context of emergency powers, counter-terrorism, and constituent power. He is the author of Emergency Powers in a Time of Pandemic (Bristol University Press, 2020) and Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law: Constitutions in an Age of Crisis (Hart, 2018) which was shortlisted for the 2018 Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.He is a former member of Ireland's Offences Against the State Act Independent Review Group (2021-2023).

• 1: Background and Introductory Issues 2: Extremist Organisations and Extremist Speech 3: Terrorist Funding and Property 4: Terrorist Investigations 5: Counter-Terrorist Powers 6: Criminal Offences and the Processing of Offenders 7: Executive Measures Against Individuals 8: Protective Security from Terrorism Risk 9: Northern Ireland and Anti-Terrorism Legislation 10: Other Arrangements and Final Conclusions

This book is a one-stop-shop for counter-terrorism law and practice in the United Kingdom. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of counter-terrorism law and practice in this jurisdiction and beyond. Encompassing the major political and military developments of the last decade including the British response to ISIS, it provides a comprehensive assessment the law in theory and practice, the growth of executive power, and the hardening of 'soft' measures such as the Prevent strategy. The book keenly observes counterterrorism trend lines and continues to defend the rule of law as the basis for any successful response to the threat of terrorism.