7.6 CONCLUSION

Accordingly, and for the reasons now set out above, it is submitted that the third principal issue must also now be answered in the affirmative. It follows, I submit, that I have now established, a clear argument in support of the following legal contentions, vis.:

(i) that there does indeed exist an offence, under customary international law, of the waging etc. of an act of international aggression etc., termed ‘a crime against peace’:

(ii) that there is a criminal liability in individual natural persons for committing that offence, where they have been sufficiently complicit, and finally;

(iii) that this offence, complete with that individual personal liability, is adopted into the English common law, and is therefore every bit as much within the jurisdiction of the criminal law courts of this country to deal with as, for example, the crime of murder.

It follows that the Defendants to this claim, in the courts below, in reaching their respective decisions not to issue the process sought, have made an error of law (going to jurisdiction), so that in exercise of your supervisory jurisdiction, I humbly beseech, this Honourable Court to grant the relief which I seek. However, and for the purposes of the present application for leave alone, I request merely that it be granted, at present, only in so far as would permit a Divisional Court to consider, inter parties, and as a preliminary matter, the following question involved, and which I respectfully submit is of general public importance, to wit:

“ Where a criminal offence exists, under well established customary international law, complete with a proven personal liability for individuals who commit it ; can the law of the offence, complete with the individual liability, be adopted into, and thereby form a part of, the common law of this country, or can the existence of such a criminal offence only ever be achieved by means of incorporation by way of statute?“

Robert L. MANSON

May MMIII

Claimant in Person and Peace Campaigner

Brynymor, Parrog

NEWPORT, Pembs.

Robbie@brynymor58.freeserve.co.uk

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