Straw Repudiates Law Lords' Decision

It is ironic that Jack Straw invokes the special immigration appeals tribunal to support his case:

Mr Straw told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The people concerned have a right of appeal to a special immigration appeals tribunal, which is chaired by a high court judge, and on each of the cases of the people currently detained the decision to certify them as requiring detention was approved by that court.

Because as the BBC reports:

When the men were first held, they took their cases to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC).

The commission ruled on 30 July, 2002 that the anti-terror act unjustifiably discriminated against foreign nationals as British people could not be held in the same way.

The Court of Appeal felt bound to overrule the Commission: hence the House of Lords judgment.