Guantanamo Tribunals are not a 'fair trial': UK

"While we must be flexible and be prepared to countenance some limitation of fundamental rights if properly justified and proportionate, there are certain principles on which there can be no compromise," Lord Peter Goldsmith will tell the International Criminal Law Association in London, according to early copies of his speech.

"Fair trial is one of those -- which is the reason we in the UK have been unable to accept that the US military tribunals proposed for those detained at Guantanamo Bay offer sufficient guarantees of a fair trial in accordance with international standards," he will say.

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In all, nine Britons were held without charge at Guantanamo Bay, a US naval base at the eastern end of Cuba, having been detained in Afghanistan or Pakistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.