As retired US judges, we’re not used to speaking out. But we cannot be silent | Michael P Donnelly and Robert F Orr

We joined a recent bus tour of 30 judges, lawyers and advocates fighting not for any partisan aim, but for the rule of law itself Last October, US lawyers, judges and rule-of-law advocates traveled to Warsaw as guests of the Carter Center. Neither of us was among them. But when our colleagues returned, their stories in

Retired judge Sir Edwin Jowitt chaired the inquiry into police actions around the killing of Robert Hamill.His death comes ahead of the expected publication this year of the long-awaited inquiry report, which was completed 15 years ago.Mr Hamill, a Catholic father-of-three, was beaten by a loyalist mob in Portadown in