I have received the following details of a case laid at Leeds
Magistrates Court.

The Attorney General (Lord Goldsmith) originally declared the war
illegal.    But under intense pressure, cobbled together a case from
old UN resolutions to pretend that it was, after all, legal - er, well,
maybe.

English magistrates courts (stuffed to the gunnels with Blair's
Marxist cronies) have previously shown themselves perfectly
willing to simply ignore the law, notably in the case of metric
rulings and in the case of previous treason charges laid against
Blair in 200 courts across England.

Given the above, and the willingness of the herds of red pigs in
wigs, who have been perfectly prepared to be in contempt
of their own courts, oaths, law and constitution, I do not give
this attempt a lot of chance at this time.

That, however, is no reason not to bring the action, and in the
case of a repeat of magistrates being in contempt of their own
courts and of our law again, we will list them for future
prosecution on subversion charges, as normal.....



PRESS RELEASE:  Monday 17th March 2003

BLAIR PROSECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES: Preparing Aggressive War

NUREMBERG CRIME

A prosecution lodged with Leeds Magistrates Court today, Monday 17th March
2003, alleges that Mr Blair has "prepared and planned aggressive war"
against Iraq. This is one of the crimes of which Nazi leaders were
convicted at Nuremberg after the Second World War.

International law makes aggression a crime for which individuals, not just
states, are criminally responsible.

The prosecutor, Mike Davies, said:

"The UN has estimated there would be half a million casualties in the first
phase of an attack. It would be organised murder on a horrific scale. This
is one of the most series cases ever to be brought before an English court.
"

MURDER CHARGE

Blair is also accused with Geoff Hoon, Defence Minister, of "conspiracy to
incite to murder" under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. This
charge is based on giving orders to soldiers to invade Iraq when the
invasion is against international law. Such orders would therefore be
unlawful and would not give troops the protection against prosecution they
would rightly have in a legitimate war:

"Blair intends to send our troops into a war that leading lawyers confirm
will be against international law. As a result, every soldier, sailor and
airman will be exposed to possible murder charges. It is the people giving
the orders, not the squaddies, who should be facing such charges".

Information having been laid (attached), Leeds Magistrates are now required
to issue summonses to Blair and Hoon for them to attend court to answer the
charges under international and English law.

NO LEGAL BASIS FOR WAR

"In my view there is no legal basis in international law for an invasion of
Iraq. Unsubstantiated allegations about weapons plus a desire for a change
of leader do not even begin to justify war. The UN Charter opens with the
words: 'We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding
generations from the scourge of war ...' . Not even the Security Council
could legally authorise this war in such clear breach of the UN Charter.
For Blair to take Britain into an illegal war without even the fig-leaf of
a Security Council resolution would be beyond belief. Bush and Blair now
propose aggressive war for oil with no shred of legality.

"Laws preventing violence are the backbone of a civilized society. How can
we prosecute murderers at home if our own leader is allowed to murder tens
of thousands abroad? Do Iraqi lives not count?"

Mike Davies is Chair of the Alliance for Green Socialism. He brings this
prosecution personally as a private individual.

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18 Oak Road Leeds LS7 3JU

17th March 2003

Leeds Magistrates Court Westgate Leeds LS1

LAYING OF INFORMATION

I lay before Leeds Magistrates Court the following distinct informations
concerning criminal offences and ask the Leeds Magistrates to issue to me
the corresponding summonses against Tony Blair and Geoff Hoon for the
offences alleged:

1) Tony Blair, Prime Minister, of 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 0AA and
Geoff Hoon, Defence Minister, of the Ministry of Defence, London, SW1A 2HB
did, on one or more occasions between 1st January 2002 and 16th March 2003
inclusive, plan aggressive war against Iraq, contrary to customary
international law automatically incorporated into English common law.

2) Tony Blair, Prime Minister, of 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 0AA and
Geoff Hoon, Defence Minister, of the Ministry of Defence, London, SW1A 2HB
did, on one or more occasions between 1st January 2002 and 16th March 2003
inclusive, prepare aggressive war against Iraq, contrary to customary
international law automatically incorporated into English common law.

3) Tony Blair, Prime Minister, of 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 0AA and
Geoff Hoon, Defence Minister, of the Ministry of Defence, London, SW1A 2HB
did, on one or more occasions between 1st January 2002 and 16th March 2003
inclusive, conspire to incite members of the United Kingdom armed forces to
murder members of the armed forces of Iraq, this incitement being by
giving, or causing to be given, unlawful orders to members of the UK armed
forces to participate in an aggressive war against Iraq, incitement to
murder being contrary to section 4 of the Offences Against the Person Act
1861 as amended, and conspiracy to commit a criminal offence being contrary
to section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 as amended.

Yours faithfully

Michael F Davies

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For the attention of Leeds Magistrates.

It is possible that Leeds Magistrates rarely deal with offences under
international law and the relationship between these offences and municipal
law. It may therefore be helpful for me to provide brief preliminary
references concerning the provenance of the criminal offences alleged in
the first two informations (planning aggressive war and preparing
aggressive war).

These references are from

Malcolm N Shaw International Law (4th edition) (paperback) Cambridge
University Press 1997

Shaw pp105-110 states that customary international law is automatically
part of English common law unless it conflicts with statute law or prior
case law.

Shaw pp 471-473 and p 185 states that aggression, including the Nuremberg
formulation of "planning, preparing or waging aggressive war", is a crime
under customary international law.

Shaw pp 184-190 states that under customary international law individuals
are criminally liable for aggression, including in particular the Nuremberg
formulation of "planning, preparing or waging aggressive war".

The principal underlying case law references are given by Shaw.