Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Law lord castigates US justice: "A senior law lord last night delivered a scathing attack on the US government's and the American courts' treatment of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, branding it 'a monstrous failure of justice'.
Lord Steyn, one of the most senior judges in Britain's highest court, described the military tribunal for trying the detainees as a 'kangaroo court'.
The term, he said, implied "a pre-ordained arbitrary rush to judgment by an irregular tribunal which makes a mockery of justice". He asked whether the British government should not "make plain, publicly and unambiguously, our condemnation of the utter lawlessness" at Guantanamo Bay. "
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