'It's Britain's Guant=E1namo'

Rick Scannell defended international terrorist suspects held in
Belmarsh. Now he's become the second special advocate to quit. Why?
Because, he tells Aida Edemariam, indefinite detention and secret
hearings with no jury make a mockery of justice

Thursday January 20, 2005
The Guardian

It's rush-hour in the City but the main sound in the courtyards of
Middle Temple is of a fountain. The trees around it, so old that they
have to be propped up, are overlooked by mullioned windows probably
older still. It's easy to see why there's a film unit parked outside;
these buildings are shorthand for centuries of privilege, rule of

power. They are also, at the moment, the location of a burgeoning
constitutional crisis. When the law lords ruled in December that
indefinite detention, without trial, of foreign nationals under the
Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was a breach of their

rights, and thus illegal, Charles Clarke, then home secretary for all
of a day, responded that he would be seeking parliamentary permission
to renew the emergency provisions. Ian Macdonald QC, a special

for the dozen or so men affected, resigned in disgust. This week, his
colleague Rick Scannell walked too.

Aida Edemariam

Belmarsh
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/afea16f5d2d9bfc3

Guantanamo
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/ee8dbbfb35d46471