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Sue Miller is a Liberal Democrat Member of the House of Lords, nominated in 1998 and sitting as Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer.She is Liberal Democrat chief spokesman in the Lords on Home Affairs.

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COUNTER TERRORISM BILL - SUE SLAMS SECRET INQUEST PROPOSALS

At Second Reading of the Counter Terrorism Bill Sue said the move to allow the Government to bring in government appointed coroners, to hold inquests without a jury and in secret was certainly as great a threat to traditional rights as the 42 day detention. When people have died as a result of State action or negligence the State must not be allowed to implement a cover up.

Data Protection

Sue exposes the abuses in the data protection system. In a widely reported debate on June 12th she slammed the Government's appalling record not just on losing people's personal details but also on neglecting to protect workers from "kangaroo court" databases. She is very worried too that regulation of ISPs agreements with companies that can view peoples' browsing habits is ltoo sloppy. She believes the Government need to inform the public about "opt in" agreements.

Youth Justice Paper - New Paper from Sue Miller - see downloads below

Restorative Justice -Sue hears from pupils about the success of schemes in schools

Sue Miller is on the Joint Draft Marine Bill Committee

Sue at the tiller in Bideford Bay

Sue will be fighting to ensure that the Bill really will protect our precious marine ecosystems and that the interests of coastal communities are not forgotten as we make recommendations on what the final Bill that goes before Parliament should contain.We heard plenty of evidence to show some substantial changes are neccessary. See the Draft Bill at www.defra.gov.uk/marine/legislation.If you have comments on the marine environment, estuaries fish stocks, marine energy etc - please get in touch!

Criminal Justice Bill

Sue Miller and the Liberal Democrat team secured a number of important amendments to this Bill. Sue won one on better data protection by 4 votes! The Government have now included a clause to give the Information Commissioner powers to penalise public servants or private companies who are careless with peoples' private data. We campaigned hard against the new "Big Brother" law allowing snooping into people's private activities on their PCs (providing those activities did not include things that are criminal in themselves). Sadly both the Conservatives and Labour are happy to be the snoopers in the bedroom. The treatment of young people in our criminal justice system continues to be of concern. They are not even entitled to legal aid as an adult is.

Sue Miller protesting: Peaceful protest is a right not a concession!

I am giving evidence to the Committee looking at changing the appalling SOCPA laws about protest in Parliament Square !

The Government have said they will return the right to the British people to protest in Parliament Square without police permission or threats of fines. However they have not yet brought in any legislation to do this. My Private Members Bill, introduced in January 2007, would have achieved just what they now say what they want to do. Why did they not accept my Bill? Simply it was not theirs!

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