Now it gets really worrying. Even the barristers appointed by the government to represent foreign detainees held without charge are refusing to do the job.
The law allowing the detention of foreign terror suspects without trial were lambasted by the House of Lords before Christmas, and one of the "special advocates" (barristers allowed to represent the detainees but not tell them what evidence the State had against them) resigned on the basis that he refused to go along with the unjust law.
Now News">details are emerging of special advocates refusing to represent other detainees, with judges resorting to extraodinary measures to get them into court.
The law is being dragged into disrepute by measures that we thought had been consigned to history. It's four hundred years and a civil war too late for this kind of stain to be allowed on the hem of Justice's gown.
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