The degree to which judicial culture has moved away from the more deferential past is illustrated by the tension that has arisen between the government and the judiciary (and to some extent within the judiciary) over the courts' scrutiny of issues of a more political and diplomatic nature. A further illuminating example of this can be seen in Rahmatullah v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, [2012] UKSC 48 in which the Supreme Court upheld the issue of a writ of habeas corpus on the UK government, requiring it to seek to procure the release of the claimant who had been held by US forces in the Bagram Airbase since 2004.