In a further blow to the government's anti-terrorist strategy a leading lawyer says he will no longer represent suspected terrorists being held under "odious'' laws. (Last week the law lords ruled that indefinite detention without trial contravened human rights laws.) The judgement led Ian Macdonald QC, one of the special advocates given security clearance to represent detainees to resign as "a matter of conscious". New home secretary responded to the eight to one law lords ruling by saying he would not release the men, mostly held in Belmarsh prison. Macdonald said: "I now feel that whatever difference I might make as a special advocate on the inside is outweighed by the operation of a law that is fundamentally flawed and contrary to our deepest notions of justice. "My role has been altered to provide a false legitimacy to indefinite detention without knowledge of the accusations being made and without any kind of criminal charge or trial. "Such a law is an odious blot on our legal landscape and for reasons of conscience I feel that I must resign."