BRITAIN: Military families' court victory

The families of four British soldiers killed in combat in Iraq have won a court appeal enabling them to apply for a judicial review of PM Tony Blair's decision to involve Britain in the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. A previous bid for a judicial review was blocked in the High Court last December. The July 27 London Guardian quoted the judges as saying that "the question [of] whether the invasion was lawful (or reasonably thought to have been lawful) as a matter of international law, is worthy of investigation". Rose Gentle, co-founder of Military Families Against the War, has been seeking a meeting with Blair since her son was killed in Basra in June 2004. The July 27 Morning Star quoted her as saying: "Prime Minister, you have refused to meet me in Downing Street. Now you will meet me in court."

From GLW issue 678