A 'Stop the War' demonstrator calls for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes. Photo: lewishamdreamer. Flickr. CCEditor's note: This is the second of two articles in which Geoffrey Bindman investigates the possibilities and pitfalls of launching such a case against former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for his involvement in the Iraq War.
Now that the Chilcot report has been published, do we know more than we already knew from previously published accounts of the Iraq war, its preparation and its aftermath? Does it throw any new light on the prospect of legal sanctions against those whom it has criticised? The answer to both of these questions is 'not much'. Nonetheless, there is enough information to map out the main avenues of that those seeking legal redress could pursue.
