Renewed application for permission to challenge the decision of a District Judge who refused an application to issue a summons pursuant to s.1(1)(a) of the Magistrates Courts Act 1980 against the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, for an offence of administering a noxious substance – allegation that the Prime Minister, ordered that the invading UK armed forces should use Depleted Uranium (DU) bullets in the invasion of Iraq.
Held: These grounds of appeal show very clearly that the application for a summons was made for an improper purpose in that the applicant wished to prosecute Tony Blair for war crimes rather than for the offence the subject of the summons application.
Cutts DBE J
[2020] EWHC 1850 (Admin)
Bailii
Magistrates Courts Act 1980, Offences Against the Person Act 1861
England and Wales
Updated: 07 June 2021; Ref: scu.652386