n 2004, the UK House of Lords delivered a judgment in A & Others and X & Others v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs case, in what is regarded as one of the most important decisions issued by an English court in more than 50 years. The court held that there was no state of public emergency threatening the life of the nation, which may have justified derogating from protecting fundamental rights. The court further described indefinite detention contained in anti-terror laws as the stuff of nightmares, associated with France before and during the revolution, with Soviet Russia in the Stalinist era.
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