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  • Sir John! Sir John! Are we there yet?

    Carl Gardner
    August 31, 2015
    Tags: inquiries, iraq, judges, lawyers, lord lester, lord morris
  • R (Smith) v Defence Secretary: a frolic ended, a genie bottled

    Carl Gardner
    July 1, 2010

    Yesterday the Supreme Court gave judgment in this case, ruling that the article 2 Convention right to life does not apply automatically to all members of the British armed forces deployed anywhere abroad; and that the death of a […]

    Tags: armed forces, coroners, human rights, iraq
  • The invasion of Iraq was lawful

    Carl Gardner
    January 27, 2010

    This blog didn’t exist when US and British forces, with others, invaded Iraq in 2003. I’ve never written directly about the legality of the war. But with Sir Michael Wood and Elizabeth Wilmshurst having given evidence to the Iraq inquiry […]

    Tags: international, iraq, lord goldsmith
  • The perfectly fit Attorney General

    Carl Gardner
    December 3, 2009

    Afua Hirsch wrote in yesterday’s Guardian that the role of Attorney General is unfit for purpose and unsustainable:

    In many ways the problem is as simple as this: the job description just does not work. The attorney general is tasked with […]

    Tags: al yamamah, attorney general, cash for honours, iraq, lord goldsmith
  • Jack Straw’s veto and the Iraq minutes

    Carl Gardner
    February 25, 2009

    In the end, then, the minutes of Cabinet meetings at which the decision to invade Iraq was taken will not be released; Jack Straw has invoked section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act, thus vetoing disclosure in spite […]

    Tags: freedom of information, iraq
  • Reactions to Lord Bingham

    Carl Gardner
    November 21, 2008

    There have been a couple of interesting reactions to Lord Bingham’s speech earlier this week: this from John Rentoul, citing this from Oliver Kamm; and this from Norman Geras.

    Tags: iraq, lord bingham
  • Goldsmith’s defence

    Carl Gardner
    November 19, 2008

    Lord Goldsmith was on Radio 4 last night defending his 2003 legal advice on the invasion of Iraq after Lord Bingham’s criticism last night; listen to Lord Goldsmith here.

    Tags: iraq, lord goldsmith
  • Lord Bingham on the legality of the Iraq war

    Carl Gardner
    November 18, 2008

    So, Lord Bingham has given his legal view of the Iraq war: that the invasion was a serious breach of international law.

    Is there anyone who hasn’t made up their mind about this already? I doubt it. Of […]

    Tags: international, iraq, lord bingham, lord goldsmith
  • Smith v Asst. Deputy Coroner for Oxfordshire

    Carl Gardner
    April 18, 2008

    I can now link to Collins J’s judgment in the case that received lots of media coverage the other day, on the right to life and troops in Iraq – although it looks as though some further observations from […]

    Tags: human rights, inquests, iraq
  • R (Gentle) v Prime Minister and others

    Carl Gardner
    April 9, 2008

    A committee of nine Law Lords has unanimously rejected this claim that the article 2 Convention right to life of soldiers killed in Iraq requires the government to hold an inquiry into how the UK came to invade, how […]

    Tags: house of lords, human rights, iraq
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