The various legislative responses, including the controversial control orders and proposals for 90-day pre-charge detention, were intended to address these threats in a proportionate way under judicial overview.

Why does the UK need such a uniquely lengthy period of pre-charge detention?

A suggestion would be to implement the period of pre-charge detention of 14 days and permit the application for judicial extension of up to 7 days.

In 2008 Compass worked with Liberty and other groups to amend Government plans to extend pre-charge detention to 42 days.

He also appeared on various news channels in 2008 as a critic of the governments proposals to increase pre-charge detention for terror suspects from 28 days to 42 days.

This too causes delay in the investigative processes during pre-charge detention.

Unfortunately, the proposal to increase the maximum period of pre-charge detention to three months has attracted unhelpful and unfair comparisons with internment, which it is not.

The Terrorism Act 2006 increased the limit of pre-charge detention for terrorist suspects to 28-days after a rebellion by Labour MPs.

The Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 would have controversially increased the limit of pre-charge detention for terrorism suspects for 42 days.

No individuals were held in pre-charge detention for longer than seven days.