Anti terror laws

Lawyer Louise Christian accused the government of failing to learn the lessons of Northern Ireland with its introduction of new anti terror laws.

Ms Christian, who represented a number of those detained in Guantanamo Bay,
predicted that "there will be a rise in miscarriages like the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four."

Addressing a House of Commons meeting the human rights lawyer drew further
parallels with Ireland predicting that the operation of the anti-terror laws will lead to the creation of an unbridged divide in the community. "People won't co-operate with the police as happened in Northern Ireland," said Ms Christian.

She also criticised the government's plans to extend the period that the police can detain people without charge under anti-terror laws from 14 days
to 3 months. "For the whole of the period of the Troubles with the IRA the
limit on detention was 7 days. The idea that you need three months to analyse evidence is a nonsense," said Ms Christian.

Do you think maybe that mistakes like the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four were made because they only had 7 days and not 3 months to make their case?
Maybe then they wouldn't have had to beat false confessions out of them.