Remember the fiasco in the UK when a Lord of Appeal hearing the Pinochet case omitted to declare his association with a charity connected with Amnesty International, which had been permitted to intervene in the proceedings to make representations in favour of extradition? The House of Lords ruling, to which Lord Hoffmann was a party, had to be rescinded and the whole thing gone through again with a differently constituted House. (The second time around they again ruled in favour of extradition but on narrower grounds). Surely on this principle all nine members of the Supreme Court in Gore v Bush should have recused themselves? Richard Edwards _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.