Bid to overturn jailing of Adair fails
Adair’s lawyers had argued that the decision to jail him was unlawful because he had been denied a fair and public hearing of the charges levelled against him.
It was argued Adair had not been stopped, questioned, interviewed or arrested before being sent back to prison. However, Chief Justice Robert Carswell ruled that Britain acted lawfully and reasonably. He ordered Adair to serve the remainder of his 1995 conviction for “directing terrorism”, an unprecedented charge in Northern Ireland. Adair’s projected parole date is January 2005.
