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Nine Lords a leaping

Tuesday 8 January 2008 at 8:41 pm | In News | Post Comment

Military Families Against the War will appeal against a ruling that prevented a public inquiry into the legality of Britain’s military involvement in the invasion of Iraq.

Nine Law Lords will hear the case in mid-February, only the fourth time in history that so many judges have been involved in a hearing. In very important cases seven judges sit, the usual complement is four.

The action is on behalf of Rose Gentle and Beverley Clarke, both of whom lost their sons in action in the Iraq war.