On Sunday at 17.45pm a Judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal accepted the urgent application filed by myself and wrote 'and agrees with it'. In short this means that as a matter of pure law (Iraq law) both Barzan Al Tikriti and Awad Al Bandar cannot be executed until such time as the statutory time limits have elapsed. That means that until 25th January 2007 both detainees should not be executed. If they are the Government of Iraq and/or whomsoever assisted the executions may be subject to an investigation by the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

I have today prepared a further application to the Iraqi High Tribunal submitting that to date both my clients have certainly 'heard' of the decision of the Appeal Court dated 26th December 2006 but clearly have not, to date, been 'notified' since the Iraqi Authorities have clearly, based upon their own law, failed to comply with the necessary regulation regarding 'notifications' which as we all know who practice the legal corridors has both a common sense and legal meaning. I am thus of the view and will request the Iraqi High Tribunal (Appeal Chamber) to rule on exactly WHEN were my clients actually legally 'notified' because to date Art.206 the Iraqi Authorities have failed to abide and as a consequence para.266 can only commence when legal notification has occurred. That to date has not occurred.