The Guardian: UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, court of appeal declares
Ruling prompts government to suspend new arms sales to Saudi Arabia while it urgently reviews its processes
British arms sales to Saudi Arabia have been declared unlawful by the court of appeal because ministers failed to properly assess their contribution to civilian casualties in indiscriminate bombing in Yemen.
The unexpected ruling has prompted the British government to suspend new arms sales to Saudi Arabia while it urgently reviews its processes – although Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has said the government would also seek to appeal.
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4 comments:
I hope Goverment create more and effective strategies to counter this problem.Sakit.info
And the winner is Rafale!
Common sense and good moral judgement coming into play.
It's hardly got anything to do with morals. The UK government didn't have sufficient due dillegence in their sales process. There wasn't a paper trail of checks.
Once this is corrected, it will be back to business as usual.
All the 'moral' talking points in the articles, is just click bait...
"Announcing the court's decision, Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton said that 'the process of decision-making by the government was wrong in law in one significant respect'.
He said the Government 'made no concluded assessments of whether the Saudi-led coalition had committed violations of international humanitarian law in the past, during the Yemen conflict, and made no attempt to do so'."
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