have refused any settlement they are asking for symbolic damages of only one pound each from jack straw mike allen and the british government but what they insist on is an official apology. today is the start of the preliminary hearings for ben hodges case and submarine korea heading for long since high court they tell us the government has started delaying tactics in order to keep the suit from coming to trial. the government is arguing that the courts and shouldn't even deal with the case because and the case involves other states as well as the you carry it means that if if the u.k. are not intuited some individuals and the courts can deal with the case but the moment they become involved with and of the state they're arguing it's outside the court's jurisdiction is pretty drastic so how long are you expecting this case to take we're talking years rather than months we ask some of allen and the relevant british government departments to respond to the claims made in this film so mark allen did not reply to our correspondents on behalf of the government the u.k. foreign office said we are commit

have refused any settlement they are asking for symbolic damages of only one pound each from jack straw mike allen and the british government but what they insist on is an official apology. today is the start of the preliminary hearings for ben hodges case and supplement korea heading for long things high court they tell us the government has started delaying tactics in order to keep the suit from coming to trial. the government is arguing that that the courts and shouldn't even deal with the case because and the case involves other states as well as the you carry it means that if if the u.k. are not intuited some individuals and the courts can deal with the case but the moment they become involved with and of the state they're arguing it's outside the court's jurisdiction is pretty drastic so how long are you expecting this case to take we're talking years rather than months we ask so mark allen and the relevant british government departments to respond to the claims made in this film so mark allen did not reply to our correspondence on behalf of the government the u.k. foreign office said we are