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Wed, 04 Jun 2008
Law Smackdown
From the sixth Sir David Williams Lecture, "The Rule of Law", Lord Bingham of Cornhill:
In our country, and in the United States, decisions have been made of which neither country can be proud.48
48In this country, one would instance R v Halliday [1916] 1 KB 738, [1917] AC 260 and Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206; in the United States, notably, Korematsu v United States 323 US 214 (1944) a decision which Scalia J has put on a par with that in Dred Scott, thereby assigning it to the lowest circle in Hades.