The case of David Hicks, incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay and described as one of the ‘worst of the worst’, brought up many issues that we are still dealing with today.

As the ‘War on Terror’ gradually became a range of other conflicts, questions about what happens to citizens who fight in other countries and the role of the Australian Government in protecting their rights remain contentious. When the Bush Government set up the military commissions to deal with ‘unlawful combatants’, the military lawyer Major Michael Mori became defence counsel for David Hicks, and his was the determined and reasonable voice that told Australia the story as it unfolded during the military commission process.

Mori’s fight for justice for David Hicks saw him pitted against the institutions he had spent his life serving, as he risked his career to challenge the military commission system. Now retired from the US army as a Lieutenant Colonel and practicing as a lawyer in Melbourne, Michael Mori will give his account of the legal, ethical and personal struggles that shaped this extraordinary case and his involvement in it.

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