This chapter highlights contemporary deviations from Article 6 — the right to a fair trial — as illustrated by cases of extraordinary rendition. Subsequent to the previous UK Government’s attempts in August 2008 to extend the maximum permitted duration of detention without trial in the UK to 42 days, which was discussed in the previous chapter, it assesses allegations of the use of British overseas territories as secret prisons and recent reports by leading media that individuals have been rendered to such locations and held there illegally. This chapter will also contain an analysis of judicial decisions in cases relating to the right to a fair trial in order to assess how far the European Convention on Human Rights and the UK Human Rights Act 1998 prevent contemporary abuses of the ideals of the rule of law and essential civil liberties.