The answer, of course, is that war's winners write the history books, and, if they can help it, they avoid legal accountability.

Such forms of control, unlike judicial review, are more concerned with political and financial accountability than with legal accountability.

Thanks largely to the work of pro bono lawyers like him, Guantánamo has taken some meaningful strides toward legal accountability.

Rather, they say that because guns are so lethal, the conduct of gun makers in designing and selling their products creates a legal accountability.

Political leaders who condone war crimes may escape legal accountability, but not opprobrium.

It is further stated by the Ministry that he should be punished due to "legal and disciplinary accountability."

The legal accountability of quangos also poses considerable difficulty.

The long delay is entirely the result of General Pinochet's effort to evade legal accountability.

While sending an admirably strong message about legal accountability, the fine and others that may follow could seriously crimp the party's ability to campaign.

Some lawyers think that in any given case, society has to choose between information on which to base rapid remedial action and legal accountability.