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The Litvinenko Inquiry: Legal Analysis from an Expert in British Law

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What follows is a long and very detailed expert legal analysis of the Litvinenko inquiry by Russia Insider's International Affairs Editor, Alexander Mercouris, who was a practicing lawyer for 12 years at the Royal Courts of Justice, the venue of the Litvinenko inquiry.  

The first point to grasp about the Public Inquiry that has now delivered its verdict in the Litvinenko case is that it should never have happened at all. The second point is that Inquiry’s decision that the Russian authorities were “probably” behind Litvinenko’s murder is unsustainable and makes no sense.

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Natylie Baldwin is the author of The View from Moscow: Understanding Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations, available at Amazon. Her writing has appeared in Consortium News, RT, OpEd News, The Globe Post, Antiwar.com, The New York Journal of Books, (more...)
 

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