In her view, the most important thing is for Britain to maintain its commitment to universal jurisdiction.
The rarely-used 1988 war crimes and human rights abuses law is known as a "universal jurisdiction" offence.
This turn of events is the logical flipside of Parliament's abject refusal to amend Britain's outrageous universal jurisdiction law.
For instance, Israel should suspend the issuance of diplomatic visas to British officials while it "studies" the British universal jurisdiction statute.
Both Spain and Belgium amended their universal jurisdiction laws for this reason.
Metropolitan Police detectives held Col Lama under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
What both the Brighton court's verdict and the abuse of the universal jurisdiction law show is that today in England Israelis cannot assume that the laws will protect them.
Among this new "legal" regime's most dangerous features is its bid to overturn state sovereignty by subjecting leading citizens of weak states to politically-motivated criminal prosecutions under the rubric of universal jurisdiction.
During her visit to Israel this week, British Attorney-General Patricia Scotland made clear that the British government is unwilling to cancel Britain's universal jurisdiction law despite the fact that anti-Israel activists exploit the law to abuse Israeli officials visiting her country.
The Convention gave effect to certain of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established an international judicial organ with jurisdiction to find against States (States Parties to the Convention) that do not fulfil their undertakings.
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