Lawyer who took Britain to court over arming Israel celebrates victory

Labour froze some arms sales to Israel the day before it was due back in court to face lawyers from the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, who were presenting mounting evidence that weapon exports were illegal. Declassified spoke to their lawyer Dearbhla Minogue about the court room drama behind David Lammy’s announcement yesterday. Help us cover more crucial court cases: Read more about UK arms exports to Israel: Follow Dearbhla’s work for Al-Haq and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN): GLAN and Al-Haq’s challenge over the UK government’s partial suspension of weapons exports licences to Israel is set to continue over glaring legal errors and the exclusion of fighter jet components from yesterday’s decision to revoke arms exports to Israel. Less than 24 hours b