LONDON, Feb. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The British government came under renewed pressure Saturday to disclose the legal advice its senior lawyers gave to justify the war with Iraq.

    Greenpeace, an environmental group, demanded on Saturday that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith's advice be seen in court in the case of 14 protesters facing charges after chaining themselves to tanks at Marchwood Docks, southern England, in an anti-war demonstration in February, 2003.

    Lord Goldsmith issued the public version of his advice on March17 last year which said that, based on three UN resolutions, the use of force against Iraq was legal.

    However, a dispute has arisen over the private advice Lord Goldsmith gave the government a month before. Greenpeace claims the advice said the war was illegal.

    Kate Harrison of Greenpeace told BBC Radio that it was "essential" for the protesters' trial to see a full version of Goldsmith's advice.

    "They (the protesters) say they thought the war was illegal... We think it is essential for a fair trial that they see what the Attorney General thought at the time," she said.

    Pressure on the government to publish all the advice given by Goldsmith has been stepped up following the collapse of the government's case Wednesday against former Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) employee Katharine Gun.

    Gun was accused of leaking a top secret memo to the public before the war in Iraq but the case collapsed when her lawyers demanded access to the advice given by Lord Goldsmith.

    Although Goldsmith has said the dropping of the Gun case had nothing to do with Gun's lawyers' demands to see the advice, the demand has been renewed by lawyers acting for the anti-war protesters.

    "It would appear that the Attorney General probably thought at the time of the protest that the war would be unlawful and that the Foreign Office thought so too," Harrison told the BBC. Enditem