PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Armed Forces: Civil Proceedings (1 November 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress the Government has made on protecting the armed forces from persistent legal claims.
Asked by:
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
Asked by:
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
Answer
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.
Answered by:
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Conservative)
7 November 2016
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