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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
I don't think it's unusual for ministers to take legal advice to protect HMG's position. The Cabinet rule of collective responsibility means that individual ministers would only incur personal liability in exceptional circumstances, which are unlikely to obtain here. And HMG can resile from the Rome Statute at any time if they decide that a parti-pris Hague prosecutor is playing silly-buggers. Or they could perhaps initiate a counter-action against the prosecutor as a war criminal for assisting certain avowedly genocidal terrorist organisations. It's not in the ICC's interests to go there, really.
The threat to them is mostly much further down the line.
Highly unlikely they get prosecuted while still in power
Also it could well be they probably wouldn't be prosecuted. That's still leaves enough risk to scare the shite of them.
