] The military tribunals which will try the "alien
] combatants" held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay in
] Cuba form one such legal black hole. In November a senior
] British judge, Lord Steyn, of the House of Lords,
] referred to the trial arrangements for the detainees at
] Guantanamo Bay as a "kangaroo court" and a "black hole".
]
] The phrase also was used at the end of last year by a
] federal appeals court in the United States which found
] that the holding and trial of aliens by the military
] without charge in an offshore location amounted to a
] legal "black hole" and as such was unconstitutional.
]
] And there were the words again, just this week, in the
] mouths of the Pentagon's own lawyers who have been
] appointed as defence counsel for the alien combatants.
] They said that it amounts to a "legal black hole" if
] there is no possibility of a civilian court review of the
] determinations of the US military commissions which will
] try David Hicks and others.

A legal black hole in Cuba threatens to suck in some precious rights - www.smh.com.au