Under Mr. Hussein, Iraq's utterly subservient court system dispensed the opposite of justice, and it is wishful thinking to believe that independent jurists who understand impartial trials could have emerged.
As both the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly proven, they are free to violate the Constitution at will just so long as they do so with enough secrecy to convince subservient federal courts to bar everyone from challenging their conduct.
Diane James, the party's justice and home affairs spokeswoman, said: "The plain facts are, while we are members of the EU, the UK must be signatories of the ECHR and our supreme court is subservient to the European court in Strasbourg on human rights matters.
National laws are now deemed to be subservient to international courts, whether at the European Court of Justice or at the European Court of Human Rights.
But Zimbabwe's courts are subservient enough that Mr. Tsvangirai could be convicted.
Or at least, they once did: Yale's Woodward committee and its statement on Freedom of Expression are now eviscerated by the agreement with Singapore, whose "anti-defamation" laws are enforced without jury trials in courts wholly subservient to the ruling People's Action Party, which has held power uninterruptedly since Singapore gained independence in 1965.
"The courts are often subservient to the executive, while the security services, the prosecutors and the police remain highly politicized," the report said.
The UK's supreme court is "not subservient" but works "in a dialogue" with the judges in Strasbourg, he insisted.
The courts, the media and the universities are subservient.
In this new system the role of elected governments would be to serve as subservient agents for the transnational corporations, while the armies, police, and courts would serve the interests of these transnational corporations".
Hall, 84, manipulated them until they became "subservient and submissive" to his demands, Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, told Preston crown court, adding: "It was their secret".
