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		</div><p>Campaigners have won a landmark legal challenge against the British Government over UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) argued that the decision to continue to license military equipment for export to the Gulf state, which is leading a coalition of forces in the Yemeni conflict, was unlawful.</p>
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<p>The group said export licences should not have been granted as there was a clear risk that the arms might be used in a serious violation of international humanitarian law.</p>
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<p>Giving judgment in London, the Court of Appeal ruled that “the process of decision-making by the Government was wrong in law in one significant respect”.</p>
<p>Announcing the court’s decision, Master of the Rolls Terence Etherton, sitting with Lord Justice Irwin and Lord Justice Singh, said the Government “made no concluded assessments of whether the Saudi-led coalition had committed violations of international humanitarian law in the past, during the Yemen conflict, and made no attempt to do so”.</p>
<p>Mr Etherton added: “The decision of the court today does not mean that licences to export arms to Saudi Arabia must immediately be suspended.”</p>
<p>He said the Government “must reconsider the matter” and estimate any future risks in light of their conclusions about the past.</p>
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