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Dear friends,

I wanted to share the latest developments since our landmark
victory this Summer – when the Court of Appeal found that the
Government acted unlawfully in licensing arms sales to Saudi
Arabia.

The bad news first: as we feared, our fight must go on. The
Government doesn’t want to accept the verdict and it has been
granted permission to take the case to the Supreme Court.

The good news is that the Government's request for 'a stay',
which would have allowed it to carry on with business as usual
until any Appeal is heard, was denied.

Previous decisions on arms sales must still be retaken, ‘on a
lawful basis’. Until this is done, it must also stop issuing new
arms exports licences to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners
for use in Yemen.

This is huge! With 57 applications for export licences under
consideration at the time of the ruling, it is likely that many
hundreds of millions of pounds of arms sales remain on hold as a
result of our action together - thank you.

This week, we exposed how the UK Government has licensed more
than £6.3 of weapons sales
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to the Saudi-led coalition in the first four years of the Yemen
conflict. CAAT believes that if the government took its decisions
properly, as the Court has ordered, then these licences would not
have been granted.

The problem is that the Government doesn't actually want to stop
selling arms. Government Ministers have already said that
"changing the process as set out by the Court does not
necessarily mean any of the decisions would be different." We're
going to need to scrutinise its next steps very closely.

Luckily, you’re on the case! Thanks to everyone who has written
to their MPs, and shared responses. If you want to follow up with
your MP further, we’ve been compiling answers to some of the most
Frequently Asked Questions: caat.org.uk/saudi-faqs
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In the meantime, the government’s priorities are laid bare: its
priority is more arms sales. In less than three weeks it will be
welcoming
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military delegations from Saudi Arabia, and its coalition
partners bombing Yemen, to the DSEI
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London.

Thousands of us will be resisting the arms fair
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ways. Can you help by spreading the word?

Please watch and share our new film
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Arming Saudi and Stop the Arms Fair. You can find it on Facebook

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, Twitter
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Thank you!

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Sarah

Campaign Against Arms Trade
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