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Justice and the Enemy by William Shawcross – review
William Shawcross offers a good account of the problems involved in prosecuting Islamist terrorists, although his defence of torture leaves a bad tasteIn 1946, Sir Hartley Shawcross, the chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, gave a noble speech: “Mankind itself, struggling now to re-establish, in all the countries of the world the common simple things – liberty, love, understanding – comes to this court and cries, ‘These are our laws – let them prevail. ‘”That any notion of justice prevailed after the horror of the second world war was a miracle in itself.
published date:Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:01 GMT