Madam, - Pictures published of the end of Saddam Hussein make the hanging appear like a lynching . "Victor's justice"?
According to Amnesty International, the trial process was "flawed". The court showed little appetite for asserting its integral independence. True, the chief trial judge did resign due to intolerable interference. Yet perversely, the prime minister envisaged a guilty verdict weeks in advance. This was wrong in principle.
Where was the core norm of natural justice: that nobody may act as judge in his or her own case or cause? - Yours, etc,
JOHN ANTONY BARNWELL, St Patrick's Road, Dublin 9.