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Notes
1. The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) works for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade. The Corner House is an environmental and social justice NGO. Leigh Day & Co have represented them throughout the judicial review process, along with counsel from Blackstone Chambers.
2. The judgment of the High Court was handed down on 10 April 2008 by Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan, following a judicial review brought by The Corner House and CAAT. They ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), on the advice of the government, had acted unlawfully by terminating an investigation into BAE's Saudi arms deals on 14th December 2006, following lobbying by BAE and Saudi representatives. The Saudi regime had threatened to cancel an arms deal and withdraw diplomatic and intelligence co‐operation. This was described by the judges as a ‘successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom’.
3. A time line of the judicial review and the arguments and evidence presented are also available.
4. The costs of the judicial review were capped and agreed at a Directions Hearing in January 2008. Campaign Against Arms Trade, 11 Goodwin St, Finsbury Park, London N4 3HQ; www.caat.org.uk