Sentence examples for detention limit from inspiring English sources

Its police already have the most generous pre-charge detention limit in the world.

"We were also creeping closer to the detention limit, which had just been raised from 14 to 28 days.

He said a 90-day detention limit was one of the most notorious aspects of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Monday's online debate, courtesy of Sky's Adam Boulton, finally drew Tamsin Dunwoody on the pre-charge detention limit from 28 to 42 days.

Opponents of the measure, which extends the current detention limit of 28 days, say it would give Britain detention powers that have few parallels in other Western democracies.

July 24 2007: Jacqui Smith, appointed as home secretary in June, says "the time is right" to consider extending the terror detention limit.

We secured reasonable detention limits for terror suspects.

Opponents fear the directive will encourage countries with shorter detention limits to extend them.

Public defenders had wanted the option of pretrial detention limited to those charged with violent crimes.

Changing face of detention limits 24 hours Before 2000, terror suspects were covered by ordinary criminal law.

Under the previous Labour government, Farr played a crucial role pushing for the 90-day and then 42-day detention limits, along with what was then known as the "interception modernisation project", which morphed, under the coalition, into the communications data bill.