A legal submission by international law experts at Kent Law School has been published on the Iraq Inquiry website.
The submission, written in September 2010, lists 18 points made in respect of Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter and its implications for the interpretation of UN Security Council resolutions.
Authored by Professor Nick Grief, Dr Yutaka Arai, Sian Lewis-Anthony and Kasim Sheikh, the submission was made in response to an open invitation to experts in international law made in June 2010. Experts were invited to comment on the issues of law arising from the grounds on which the UK Government relied for the legal basis for the 2003 military invasion of Iraq. A total of 37 documents were submitted, all of which helped inform the Inquiry’s considerations of legal issues. These documents have now been declassified and published on the Inquiry’s website at: www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/other-material/submissions-international-law
Sir John Chilcot’s final Report of the Iraq Inquiry was published on 6 July 2016. A copy of the Report is available online at: www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report
A PDF copy of the submission by staff at Kent Law School is also available to read below: