328. CRIMINAL LAW AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – As was the case for Belgium, most restrictions to the right to liberty in the UK take place within the context of the criminal justice system. Contrary to Belgium, however, the UK also has a system of preventatively restricting physical liberty on an administrative law basis. For our purposes the indefinite detention of suspected international terrorists in Belmarsh prison and the subsequent control order and TPIM regimes are the most relevant (see nos 496–519).

329. OVERVIEW OF PART III – This Part of the book aims to do the same as Part II did for Belgium, but now for the UK. This introduction briefl y presents the UK legal system and its context of (counter-)terrorism. The rest of the Part contains three Chapters, the first two of which cover research question 3.11614 and the third of which covers research question 3.2.1615 The first Chapter focusses on criminal law; the second on restrictions of liberty within administrative law; and the third contains a preliminary analysis of the UK rules. The first Chapter is divided into 16 Sections. Section II discusses the definition of terrorism in UK law, Section III focusses on terrorism sensu stricto and Sections IV to XIV on the offences of terrorism sensu lato (see no. 7).