Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG, fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House and Professor of International Law at University College London, is best known for her role as Deputy Legal Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
She resigned on the 20th of March 2003 — three days after Baron Goldsmith's final advice to the British government reversed her legal opinion (in Baron Goldsmith's first secret memo 10 days earlier[1]) that the invasion was illegal without a second United Nations Security Council Resolution to SCR 678.
Although her resignation was public at the time[2], the detailed reasons and resignation letter were not, and caused a stir when they were released two years later[3].
   | final advice - Lord Goldsmith's published advice on the legal basis for the use of force against Iraq | World news | guardian.co.uk |
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