A lawyer for the Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has welcomed comments by Britain's top legal adviser who called for the centre to be closed down.
Mr Hicks' Adelaide-based lawyer, David McLeod, says the comments by Britain's Attorney-General were heartening.
Lord Goldsmith, has criticised the military trials set up to try Mr Hicks and others and says the existence of Guantanamo Bay remains unacceptable to the free world.
Mr McLeod says he hopes it will force Britain to negotiate Mr Hicks' release now.
"We're hoping that the U-K government will accept that the time has come to embrace its newest citizen, David Hicks, and seek his release in the same way as they did for the other nine, precisely on the basis that Lord Goldsmith is saying now, that there can simply be no compromise on certain principles and that a fair trial is one of those."