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This conference on Trident and International Law was organised in Edinburgh by the Acronym Institute, Trident Ploughshares and the Peace and Justice Centre. Further speeches may be added as they become available.
Welcome: Mr Angus Robertson MP (Leader and Defence Spokesperson for SNP in Westminster)
Session I: The ICJ Opinion and national obligations
Chair: Dr Rebecca Johnson, Director,
Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy and Member of the
government's Working Group on Scotland without Nuclear Weapons,
KEYNOTE: H.E. Judge Christopher
Weeramantry, Chair of the Weeramantry International Centre for
Peace Education and Research and former Vice President of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
"The meaning of the historic ICJ Advisory Opinion of July 8, 1996
and its implications for national obligations"
H.E. Judge Mohammed Bedjaoui, President
of the ICJ, 1996 (unable to attend, paper circulated)
Dr John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee
on Nuclear Policy, USA "New developments on the illegality of
nuclear weapons"
Session II: Trident, the NPT and Scottish Law
Chair : Roseanna Cunningham MSP
Philippe Sands QC "Trident renewal, the NPT and international law"
(snow prevented attendance, legal advice on
Trident circulated)
Aidan O'Neill QC "Reviewing developments
in Scottish law since the Decision of the High Court of Justiciary
in the Lord Advocate's Reference on the 1999 nuclear weapons
decision"
Session III : Law and civil society responsibilities to
oppose nuclear weapons
Professor Nick Grief, University of Bournemouth and Doughty Street
Chambers, London
Rabinder Singh QC and Prof Christine Chinkin (unable to attend, legal advice from 2005 circulated)
Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares
Janet Fenton, Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre