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Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206

Full text of this important wartime case where Robert Liversidge was sent to prison by the then Home Secretary Sir John Anderson, who believed he represented a threat to public safety. To do this in an emergency war situation he only needed "reasonable cause" to believe Liversidge was a man of "hostile associations".

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