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Controversial Guantanamo legal advisor reassigned

September 21, 2008 11:50:00 AM

The Pentagon on Friday announced that US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , the controversial legal advisor to the US military commissions at Guantanamo and supervisor of the Office of Military Commissions-Prosecution...

September 5, 2008 01:12:00 PM

The military judge presiding over the military commission trial of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr on Wednesday barred US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann from acting as a legal...

August 27, 2008 11:21:00 AM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has ordered the prosecution of Florence Hartmann , former spokeswoman for ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte , on two counts of contempt for allegedly...

August 15, 2008 11:52:00 AM

A military judge on Thursday ordered that military commissions legal advisor Gen. Thomas Hartmann will not participate in the Guantanamo trial of Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad . The judge, Army...

August 14, 2008 09:15:00 AM

US Army Gen. Gregory Zanetti , deputy commander at Guantanamo Bay, testified Wednesday that military commissions legal advisor Gen. Thomas Hartmann routinely bullied his counterparts and was inappropriately aggressive in...

August 12, 2008 10:02:00 AM

Attempts to bring war crimes suspect and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to trial were long delayed by the US, France, and England, a former spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...

June 9, 2008 11:39:00 AM

The Pentagon has said that an additional 108 military lawyers and paralegals will be assigned to work on the cases of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay , twice the current number. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann...

June 4, 2008 09:37:00 AM

Sahr MuhammedAlly : "Mohammed Jawad, who has been in Guantánamo for five years since he was 16 or 17 years old, was subjected to the "frequent flyer program" in May 2004. According...

May 30, 2008 10:19:00 AM

The former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay alleges that the US Department of Defense (DOD) retaliated against him for giving testimony at the pre-trial hearing of detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan ...

May 20, 2008 12:36:00 PM

Military defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay detainees allegedly behind the Sept. 11 attacks are attempting to delay their clients' arraignments, currently scheduled for June 5. They allege the US government has interfered...

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On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act. Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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