A DISSENTING judge attacked anti-terror legislation yesterday, hours after other judges dismissed a human rights case brought by the Muslim wife of a convicted terrorist.

Supreme Court Justice Lord Kerr said he had been given no “reasoned justification” for giving officers powers to stop and question people travelling to and from Britain.

Sylvie Beghal, a French mother-of-four living in Leicester, complained that her human rights had been violated when she arrived at East Midlands Airport in 2011.

Her husband Djamel is imprisoned in France for terror-related offences.

A panel of five judges dismissed her claim by four to one, the latter being Lord Kerr.

The others found schedule seven powers of the Terrorism Act were “proportionate.”

Lord Kerr said: “A person stopped under this provision is required to answer questions even though they may not have had the benefit of legal advice. The fact that they are open to criminal sanction … for failing to answer questions renders the exercise of these powers a significant interference with article 8 rights.”

Ms Beghal said she would appeal to the ECHR.