sentences:  The Brighton protester's war crimes legal argument was taken seriously by the court for the first time.It had previously been dismissed by lower criminal courts in Brighton as beyond their jurisdiction.Although a defence argument that protesters could have been justified in harassing employees of the company to stop a war crime being committed, was rejected by the high court in a preliminary issues trial of November 2005 on the grounds that such crimes could not be prevented over a long term, only in immediate actions to stop imminent and specific crimes, the court accepted that a further defense argument should be open.