In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

* 2003 – David Greene, British director ( b. 1921 )

Other British comedies examined the role of the Asian community in British life, including Bhaji on the Beach ( 1993 ), East Is East ( 1999 ), Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ), Anita and Me ( 2003 ) and Death at a Funeral.

In 2003, another British publisher, Wandering Star, made an effort both to restore Howard's original manuscripts and to provide a more scholarly and historical view of the Conan stories.

Coronation Street was the last British soap to make the switch to 16: 9 ( Take the High Road remained in 4: 3 until it finished in 2003 ).

Dense sponsored the British University Snowsports Council in 2002 and the British Snowboard Junior team in 2002 and 2003.

* 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author ( b. 1924 )

* 1927 – Denis Quilley, British actor ( d. 2003 )

Gordon Onslow Ford ( 1912 – 2003 ), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College.

He declined the royal honour of Commander of the British Empire in 2000, and turned down a knighthood in 2003, stating: " I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that.

The British film This is Not a Love Song ( 2003 ) was the first to be streamed live on the Internet at the same time as its cinema premiere.

* 1921 – David Greene, British director ( d. 2003 )

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

In 2003, after the American and British invasion, Iraq was occupied by Coalition forces.

* 1932 – Peter Redgrove, British poet ( d. 2003 )

* 1941 – Colin Gunton, British theologian ( d. 2003 )

He was made a Knight Commander ( KBE ) of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

He became a Commander of the British Empire CBE in 1990, and a member of the Companions of Honour in 2003.

The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, amalgamated within the Council for British Research in the Levant ( CBRL ) in 1998, was officially renamed the Kenyon Institute on 10 July 2003 in honour of Kathleen Kenyon.

Another notable retrospective praise came in 2003 from the British magazine, NME, which rated Forever Changes No. 6 on their list of greatest albums of all time.

The British television station Channel Four commissioned a documentary Leonardo's Dream Machines, for broadcast in 2003.

A 2003 decision by an American court found IJO was the name used by Hezbollah for its attacks in Lebanon, and parts of the Middle East, and Europe.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

In yet another set of related cases, in September 2003, the RIAA ( trade association of the music industry ) filed suit in civil court against several private individuals who had shared large numbers of files with Kazaa ; most of these suits were settled with monetary payments averaging $ 3, 000.

Since early 2003, a special law court with prison facilities has been operational at Schiphol airport.

* 2003 – A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.

In a 2003 court case in the United States, it was ruled that source code should be considered a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

The Supreme Court of Virginia said this in Santen v. Tuthill, 265 Va. 492 ( 2003 ), about the practice of an appeal from district court trial de novo to circuit court: " This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to ' annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

For example, in 2003, a federal district court in California found that Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) applied because perchlorate is ignitable and therefore a “ characteristic ” hazardous waste.

Still a teenager at the time, he was put on trial in a Norwegian court for violating Norwegian Criminal Code section 145, and faced a possible jail sentence of two years and large fines, but was acquitted of all charges in early 2003.

However, on 5 March 2003, a Norwegian appeals court ruled that Johansen would have to be retried.

On 22 December 2003, the appeals court agreed with the acquittal, and on 5 January 2004, Norway's Økokrim ( Economic Crime Unit ) decided not to pursue the case further.

On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold ; the vote on the court was 5 to 4.

Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U. S. 186 ( 2003 ) was a court case in the United States challenging the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act ( CTEA ).

A Paris court found in February 2005 that his verbal criticisms, such as remarks disparaging Muslims in a 2003 Le Monde interview, were " inciting racial hatred ", and he was fined 10, 000 euros and ordered to pay an additional 5, 000 euros in damages to the Ligue des droits de l ' homme ( League for Human Rights ).

Le Monde has produced in May 2003 the dagger he allegedly used to commit war crimes as court evidence.

In 2003, an attempt was made to amend the Croatian penal code by adding articles prohibiting the public display of Nazi symbols, the propagation of Nazi ideology, historical revisionism and holocaust denial, but this attempt was prevented by the Croatian constitutional court.

In 2003, McDonald's was sued in a New York court by a family who claimed that the restaurant chain was responsible for their teenage daughter's obesity and attendant health problems.

Its activists scored a major victory in 2003 when the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling which made same-sex marriage legal in Ontario, the first jurisdiction in North America to do so.

For example, in 2003, a federal district court in California found that Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) applied because perchlorate is ignitable and therefore a “ characteristic ” hazardous waste.

The team continued to average over 19, 000 spectators per game until the 2003 – 04 season, when attendance declined after the team continued to suffer image problems due to the " Jail Blazer " reputation it had gained, and was no longer competitive on the court.

On 3 December 2003, the court found all three defendants guilty and sentenced Nahimana and Ngeze to life imprisonment and Barayagwiza to imprisonment for 35 years.

Batasuna (, originally Herri Batasuna or " Unity of the People ") was a Basque nationalist political party based mainly in Spain, where it was outlawed in 2003, after a court ruling declared proven that the party was financing ETA with public money.

In 2003, Batasuna was declared illegal in Spain by a court ruling of the Spanish Supreme Court, then confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Spain.