Just a brief note to recommend the recent post from Prof. Hector MacQueen’s Scots Law News which quotes an interesting passage from the Guantanamo Bay case in the US Supreme Court (Boumediene v. Bush, 12 June 2008) which “opines curiously on Scottish constitutional history in holding that habeas corpus runs even for alien enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo.”

• US Supreme Court: why habeas corpus did not run in Scotland