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Armed Forces: Civil Proceedings

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 907110, tabled on 1 November 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress the Government has made on protecting the armed forces from persistent legal claims.

Answered on

7 November 2016

We recently announced our intention for the UK to derogate from the relevant Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in future conflicts, whenever the conditions for doing so are met. This will help protect our military personnel from ECHR-based legal claims, allowing them to take difficult decisions on the battlefield and enable us to spend more of our growing defence budget on equipment rather than lawyers’ fees. We will announce further measures in due course.


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