Conservative MPs have rounded on claims from Justice secretary Ken Clarke that the decision to release suspected terrorist Abu Qatada was "nothing to do" with the European Court of Human Rights.

The release of Abu Qatada following a European Court of Human Rights ruling could pave the way for other terror suspects such as Abu Hamza to win bail, it was feared.

Conservative MPs have called on the home secretary to "become a national hero" by ignoring a judgement from the European Court of Human Rights and deporting a terror suspect to Jordan immediately.

The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has told the Commons that it is not acceptable that the European Court of Human Rights has blocked Britain from deporting the radical cleric, Abu Qatada.

MPs warn European Court of Human Rights is undermining Britain's national security, as Qatada released on bail.

The European Court of Human Rights is undermining Britain's national security by giving terrorists grounds to remain in this country, senior Tory MPs have warned.

The coming release of Abu Qatada on bail is going to put bellows under the whole debate about the European Court of Human Rights. In his recent speech to the Council of Europe, David Cameron rightly protested about a situation with terror suspects in which ‘you cannot try them, you cannot detain them and you cannot deport them.’ We will now find out how quickly Cameron is prepared to a...

Despite the briefing it received in advance, David Cameron's speech to the Council of Europe on reforming the European Court of Human Rights was fairly tame stuff. With the exception of his promotion of a "sunset clause", which it has been rightly pointed out could result in a denial of justice, the exact thing the ECHR is meant to prevent, it certainly wasn't the "savaging" the Sun desc...

David Cameron must realise that the Strasbourg Court has no democratic right to overrule us, says Alasdair Palmer.

One of the most colourful figures in the history of Irish socialism, Gerry Lawless, who has died in London, made legal history by taking the first case heard at the European Court of Human Rights. It was against his internment during the 1950s. He was the first citizen of any European country to take legal action against a government and, though he lost, he set an important precedent. Gerald ...