Tuesday 20 January 2004 at 17:00 hours Report of Legal Inquiry into Invasion of Iraq, Room U Portcullis House, House of Commons (Press Only)
Report of the Legal Inquiry into the Invasion and Military Occupation of Iraq, following the inquiry held at LSE on 8/9 November 2003, conducted by a panel of eight professors of International law will be launched on Tuesday 20 January 2004.
The panel were asked to examine the actions of the UK during its attack on Iraq in March and April 2003 in the context of the ICC Statute and to decide whether a recommendation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate the actions of the UK under Article 15 of the ICC Statute is justified. Their conclusions will be presented at the meeting. Issues included: Civilian casualties, Choice of military targets, Use of cluster bombs and Conduct of Occupation
Panel members were: William Schabas: Professor of Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Christine Chinkin: Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics Department of Law. Bill Bowring: Professor of Human Rights and International Law at London Metropolitan University Reni Provost: Associate Professor Faculty of Law McGill University Paul Tavernier: Professor at the Faculti Jean Monnet, and Director of the Centre de recherches et d'itudes sur les droits de l'Homme et le droit humanitaire at the Universiti de Paris Sud. Nick Grief: Professor of Law and Head of the School of Finance and Law at the University of Bournemouth. Guy Goodwin-Gill QC barrister and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. Upendra Baxi: Professor of International Law at Warwick University.
RSVP: Felicity Williams on  felicity@publicinterestlawyers.co.uk