‘International law is not simply some kind of optional add-on with which States can pick or choose whether to comply‘ – Attorney General Lord Hermer KC, October 24 2024
The ratified International Laws the Britain Government is failing to honour, despite being a signatory.
Charter of the United Nations
41. The Security Council may decide what measures, not involving the use of armed force, are to be employed to give effect to its decisions.
UN Declaration on Principles of International Law
No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State. Consequently, armed intervention and all other forms of interference or attempted threats against the personality of the State or against its political, economic and cultural elements are in violation of international law.
UN Declaration on Principles Int'l Law
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
… individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State. He who violates the laws of war cannot obtain immunity while acting in pursuance of the authority of the State, if the State in authorising action moves outside its competence under international law.
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal (1946)
The Terrorist Financing Convention 1999
Article 2. Any person commits an offence if that person by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and wilfuly provides or collects funds in the knowledge that they are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out any act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to any other person when the purpose of such act is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Article 25. Individual criminal responsibility In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime [a war crime, a crime against humanity or genocide], whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible;
(b) Orders, solicits or induces the commission of such a crime…
(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission… including providing the means for its commission;
Article 27. Irrelevance of official capacity. This Statute shall apply equally to all persons without any distinction based on official capacity. In particular, official capacity as a Head of State or Government, a member of a Government or parliament, an elected representative or a government official shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility under this Statute.
International Criminal Court Act 2001
Section 52. It is an offence against the Law of England and Wales for a person to engage in conduct ancillary to genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime.
The Accessories and Abettors Act 1861
Section 8. Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any indictable offence, whether the same be an offence at common law or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, shall be liable to be tried, indicted, and punished as a principal offender.
