MPs and peers in Camp Delta plea

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Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
Saturday January 10, 2004
The Guardian

More than 50 peers, including four retired law lords, and 85 MPs including the former foreign secretary Robin Cook, will file an unprecedented brief with the US supreme court on Wednesday in support of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The "amicus curiae" ("friend of the court") brief, signed by peers and MPs from all parties, is the first ever to be filed by UK parliamentarians with the US's highest court.

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The MPs and peers argue generally on behalf of the 650 detainees from 42 countries that under the US constitution, which derived from the English bill of rights, the executive is fully accountable for its actions to the courts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1120151,00.html

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1. Thank God for the English!

Apparently the Lords still believe in the rule of Law!