The Guardian | Alice Ross: Campaign Against the Arms Trade loses fight to stop arms sales to Gulf state over claims weapons may have been used to kill civilians in Yemen

Campaigners have lost a high-profile case calling for UK arms sales to�Saudi Arabia�to be stopped over humanitarian concerns as the high court ruled exports could continue.

Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) launched the high-profile judicial review of the government�s decision to continue granting weapons-export licences to the country despite widespread concern over the civilian death toll of its campaign in�Yemen.

Delivering an open judgment in the high court in London, Lord Justice Burnett, who heard the case with Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, said: �We have concluded that the material decisions of the secretary of state were lawful. We therefore dismiss the claim.�

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