Edited by Joel D. Lieberman, chair and associate professor of criminal justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Daniel A. Krauss, associate professor in psychology, Claremont McKenna College. Ashgate, £40.00. ISBN 9780754626411 ... By Anita Chan, sociologist, Australian National University, Richard Madsen, professor of sociology, University of California, San Diego, and Jonathan Unger, head of the contemporary China centre, Australian National University ...

The Liberal Democrats have asked Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to investigate evidence presented to the Chilcot Inquiry that Mr Straw, who was then Foreign Secretary, pressured Attorney General Lord Goldsmith not to give his full legal advice to ..... A few years ago I attended a cocktail party in San Diego. Most of my family are there now, but of course they have cascaded four generations, and all are American. I was there with my sister - we are still Scottish. ...

Patrick McCarthy, the senior lawyer on Guantánamo's management team, spoke out in an interview, declaring that all four men had killed themselves with “craftily fashioned nooses.” .... Ronald Dion wrote from San Diego: “Just read your recent, disturbing piece: 'The Guantánamo Suicides: Who is Telling the Truth?'” He added, regarding my book The Guantánamo Files, “There are many books recently published and, I am sure, forthcoming, one hardly knows where to start in ...

The renowned criminal lawyer is known to speak his mind to the press and this case is no exception. He's passionate and fiery. When he talks about the uncooperative Mexican police, his voice rises. .... “It's a bad feeling to have to leave your country behind,” said Javier, a prosperous Tijuana businessman, who moved his family across the border to San Diego last year after a group of armed men tried to kidnap him. “But I didn't really have a choice. ...