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Bro Emlyn for Peace and Justice / Bro Emlyn dros Gyfiawnder a Heddwch

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Legal Issues that might arise.

  • What is a 'Crime Against Peace'?
  • How is it related to the term 'Act or War of Aggression'?
  • What is Customary International Law?
  • What is so special about the 'Nuremberg Principles'?
  • What is the 'Jus Cogens'?
  • How does Customary International Law come to be adopted by the English Common Law?
  • Don't Servants of the Crown, when in the exercise of their official duties, have a Crown Prerogative at Common law to commit what otherwise would be crimes?
  • Isn't any government decision touching on so-called "national security interests" said to be 'non-justiciable' by the courts, as per the failed CND judicial review attempt in Dec 2002 ?
  • What of the doctrine of 'act of state' whereby acts of the Crown against foreigners abroad are said to be beyond the purview of the courts ?
  • Surely “war crimes” in the general sense, including “crimes of aggression”, are now covered by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, and so covered in this country by the ICC Act 2001?
  • What is the law on the material considerations which Justices should have regard to when deciding whether or not to issue summons?
  • What of the possible defences or excuses for attacking and invading Iraq which might be said to legally justify the conduct complained of?
  • Individual and Personal Liability
  • The Attorney-General's Opinion.

 

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