Iraqi leaders were last night insisting on the right to put Saddam Hussein on trial inside Iraq, in what would be the most extraordinary war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg at the end of the second world war.
Andrew Tabachnik, putting the case against Shiner for the Solicitors Regulation Authority SRAA), said: "Even on the basis of his own admissions, Professor Shiner accepts this tribunal must strike him off at the end of this case".
Immanuel Kant: Your honor, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Tribunal: You make me wait at the end of this parade of philosophers, when it is I who has been accorded the most honored position in modernity for introducing the truth of continuous structure.
After the creation of the world's first international war-crimes tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo at the end of the second world war, it took nearly half a century before another one was established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), set up by the UN in The Hague in 1993.
The first United States military tribunal proceedings since the end of World War II began at the Guantánamo Bay naval base with a case against a 34-year-old Yemeni who is accused of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.
The building in which the first United States military tribunals since the end of World War II are being held sits at the top of the highest bluff overlooking the sparkling Guantánamo harbor.
He repeated his assertion that the tribunal in The Hague that indicted Mr. Milosevic for war crimes at the end of the Kosovo war "is an American tribunal -- not a court, but a political instrument".
Writing in the Judicial Information Bulletin, a confidential journal distributed to tribunal members, Judge Robert Martin, who retired as president of the social entitlement chamber at the end of last month, says that the tribunal was advised by the DWP to expect a surge in its workload.
No date was set for what would be the first United States military tribunals since the end of World War II.
FRANK: To these accusations I can only say that I ask the Tribunal to decide upon the degree of my guilt at the end of my case.
