Law council joins calls to abolish Australia’s powers to detain terrorist offenders to prevent future crimes
by Christopher Knaus and Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#6AF27)
Peak legal body endorses findings by independent monitor that recommends scrapping continuing detention orders
Australia's peak lawyers body has urged the government to abolish fraught" powers that allow terrorist offenders to be imprisoned so as to prevent possible crimes being committed in the future.
Last week a damning report by Australia's national security law watchdog recommended scrapping continuing detention orders, which allow terrorist offenders to be imprisoned for three years on the basis of predicted crimes rather than for any crime they have committed.
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