It blows my mind that this is possible in a country like the UK.
It remains to be seen whether it really is, and if so, for how long.
Remember, this is basically all being done because ASBOs have been a failure by almost any metric you can imagine. They were always controversial on civil liberties grounds. They became a badge of honour, or perhaps I should say an achievement to be unlocked, for many of the very people whose behaviour they were supposed to moderate. They were widely ignored by those supposedly constrained by them. And they didn't get a free ride when they were inevitably challenged in court, either.
They were also challenged by the courts so parliament is basically remaking them in their original form again.
Given that criminal barristers are protesting poor working conditions right now I think the government might want to think about making enemies in the legal profession.
Ha, who am I kidding. This government thinks they're above everything.
Of course I also didn't think we were quite so far along the path to a complete surveillance state in the US until Snowden's revelations.