Elizabeth Wilmshurst
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| Born | Elizabeth Susan Wilmshurst 28 August 1948 |
| Education | King's College London (LLB, AKC) |
Elizabeth Susan Wilmshurst Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
She resigned from the Foreign Office on 20 March 2003, three days after
United Nations Security Council Resolution to SCR 678. Although her resignation was public at the time,[4] the detailed reasons and resignation letter were not, and caused a stir when they were released two years later.[5]
On 26 January 2010, Wilmshurst
Early life and career
Wilmshurst was educated at
Wilmshurst was admitted as a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
, both within the framework of the UN Preparatory Committee for the Establishment of an ICC (1996–1998) and the Rome Diplomatic Conference (June–July 1998). Her writings and publications in the complex area of International Criminal Law include the widely used An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, co-edited with Robert Cryer, Hakan Friman and Darryl Robinson.
In popular culture
Juliet Stevenson played Wilmshurst in "A Simple Private Matter", an episode of the BBC series 10 Days to War. She is also played by Tamsin Greig in the film Official Secrets about Katharine Gun's leaking of the GCHQ memo.
Publications
- Daragh Murray (editor), Wilmshurst et al. (consultant editors), Practitioners' Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict. (2016, Oxford University Press).
Further reading
Introductory note on the General Assembly resolution 3314 (XXIX) of 14 December 1974 (Definition of Aggression) in the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
See also
- Legality of the Iraq War
- Political preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Clare Short M.P.
- Robin Cook M.P.
- Katharine Gun
- David Kelly
References
- ^ "Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG".
- ^ "A case for war". The Guardian. London. 17 March 2003. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/28_04_05_attorney_general.pdf. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ MacAskill, Ewen (22 March 2003). "Adviser quits Foreign Office over legality of war". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ "Wilmshurst resignation letter". BBC News. 24 March 2005. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ "Straw rejected advice that Iraq invasion was 'unlawful'". BBC News. BBC. 26 January 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^ Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
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