The barrister David Perry was instructed by the UK Attorney-General to defend the legality of the war on Iraq, and apparently support EDO's case for the injunction. Perry described the protests and non-violent direct actions (NVDA) in Brighton as 'a mask for anarchy' and suggested that the protesters belief that EDO were complicit in war crimes was imaginary and even dangerous. The written submissions of the AG to the High Court supported EDO's claim that the arms company did not supply Israel with military equipment. Later in a Freedom of Information response in 2006 the Attorney General's Office admitted that Perry had simply taken the word of the company on this issue and assumed it to be true even though he had not verified it.