The United Kingdom’s Involvement in 2003 Iraqi War: jus ad bellum and jus in bellum issues before the Iraqi (Chilcot) Inquiry

The Report of the Iraq (Chilcot) Inquiry was published on 6 July 2016. The Inquiry was a very vast and complex undertaking both in scope (it aimed to scruti- nize UK policy decisions linked to the 2003 Iraq war adopted in the period 2001- 2009) and in size (the Report comprises 12 volumes which ran to over 2.6 million words). By way of contrast, the aim of this short comment is very limited as it ex- amines only a few sections of the Report, namely those concerning the decision to go to war (sections 5, 6.5, 9.1, 9.2 and 9.8) and the period of belligerent occupation (sections 10.1 and 10.3).