Sentences with phrase «advice about the legality»

The minutes to be released relate to two meetings held on March 7th and 17th 2003, in which then attorney general Lord Goldsmith's advice about the legality of military action was being considered.

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However, friends of Lord Goldsmith maintain that he still feels compromised by the way in which he was pressured in 2003 to change his advice to the Government about the legality of the Iraq war.»

But the most severe blow to the post was the revelation that, after considerable government effort to keep it a secret, Lord Goldsmith had changed his legal advice to the government about the legality of the impending war with Iraq.