Clive Ponting’s case is especially relevant to the topic of juries in the lay person sections of the AQA and OCR specifications. It might, however, also stimulate discussion at A2, with the AQA Unit 4: Concepts of Law topics (especially law and morality, law and justice and balancing conflicting interests).
In April 1982 Argentina sent troops to invade the Falkland Islands. The UK government responded with military action, recapturing the islands by June of that year. As the 30th anniversary of the conflict has recently passed, and the dispute between Britain and Argentina continues to simmer, it seems timely to look again at the trial of Clive Ponting. This focused on perhaps the most controversial incident in the war: the sinking of an Argentinian ship, the General Belgrano, by a British submarine, resulting in the deaths of over 300 men.
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