The European court of human rights has rejected an attempt by the UK government to appeal a jugdment over its stop-and-search powers.
The decision means that a January 2010 court judgement which found section 44 of the Terrorism Act to be illegal is final.
It remains to be seen if the coalition will the repeal the act, or if they see it as being quite handy to keep it on the books.
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