Elizabeth Wilmshurst

Elizabeth Wilmshurst

Elizabeth Wilmshurst, fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House and Professor of International Law at University College London, is best known for her role as Deputy Legal Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

She resigned on the 20th of March 2003 — three days after a Baron Goldsmith's [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1471659,00.html final advice] to the government reversed her legal opinion (in Baron Goldsmith's first secret memo 10 days earlier [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/sharedk/bsp/hi/pdfs/28_04_05_attorney_general.pdf] ) that the invasion was illegal without a second Security Council resolution to SCR 678.

Although her resignation was public at the time [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,919647,00.html] , the detailed reasons and resignation letter were not; and caused a stir when they were released two years later [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4377605.stm] .

ee also

* Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
* Political preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq
* Clare Short
* Robin Cook
* Katharine Gun
* David Kelly

External links

* http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,919647,00.html
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4377605.stm
* http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1158801,00.html
* http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Wilmshurst


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