Today Gerry Moynihan QC, amicus curiae, continued to apply the 1996 Opinion of the International Court of Justice to the legality of Trident. Advocate John Mayer, appearing for Ulla Roder whom he had successfully defended at Greenock stated that there was no such thing as mere possession of a fleet of Trident nuclear submarines, each armed with live and targeted 100 kiloton warheads. Deploying nuclear weapons means to have them in a state of readiness for war. We are pleased that Trident's status before the law is being debated in the court but there has been a great deal of nit-picking and prevarication. If a panel of three children were picked at random off the streets of Edinburgh and asked to consider whether it is right or legal to threaten to murder innocent people and whether ordinary folk have a legal right to try and stop such a crime, they would come up with the right answer in less than five minutes.
Children understand that real law is based on morality.