Courts martial reforms outlined
“Prosecutors and military police are to forge closer links as part of a reformed courts martial system.”
BBC News, 2nd January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: courts martial
No court martial for sergeant blamed over soldiers’ deaths – The Independent
“An army sergeant who gave the wrong co-ordinates to a US warplane which dropped a 500lb bomb on British troops in Afghanistan, killing three of them, will not face a court martial, it emerged yesterday.”
The Independent, 1st November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
In re Times Newspapers Ltd and Another – Times Law Reports
In re Times Newspapers Ltd and Another
Courts-Martial Appeal Court
“To be entitled to make any order for anonymity for all or any of a number of defendants in a case in which no applicable statute provided a power justifying such an order, a court had to have regard to the relevant tests identified at common law, namely, whether, absent such an order, the administration of justice would be seriously affected or there was a real and immediate risk to the life of any of the defendants.”
The Times, 31st October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
In re Times Newspapers Ltd and another – WLR Daily
In re Times Newspapers Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Crim 2396; [2008] WLR (D) 331
“For a court to order the anonymisation of defendants’ names in a case in which no applicable statute provided a power justifying such an order, careful regard would have to be had to the relevant tests identified at common law, viz whether, absent such an order, the administration of justice would be seriously affected or there was a real and immediate risk to the life of any of the defendants.”
WLR Daily, 28th October 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Two years for soldier’s shooting – BBC News
“A British soldier who shot dead a colleague while ‘playing’ with a rifle in Iraq in 2007 has been sentenced to two years in an Army detention centre.”
BBC News, 10th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Arnold – Times Law Reports
Courts-Martial Appeal Court
“The Courts-Martial Appeal Court had no jurisdiction to entertain an appeal by a prosecutor unless at, or before informing the court that it intended to appeal the prosecutor had agreed that the accused should be acquitted of the charge if leave to appeal was not obtained.”
The Times, 13th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Campaigners petition MPs to clear executed admiral – The Guardian
“The moment that guaranteed Admiral Byng’s immortality was, sadly, his last. In March 1757 the unfortunate sailor was found guilty of neglect of duty by a court martial, hauled onto the quarter-deck of his flagship and shot dead by a firing squad.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Six SAS men accused over missing £250,000 jungle cash – The Times
“Six SAS soldiers have become the first members of the regiment to be charged with embezzling army funds, it was revealed last night.”
The Times, 14th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina v Brown (Kirsty) – Times Law Reports
Courts-Martial Appeal Court
“There was no principle by which a serviceman absent without leave ceased to be under an obligation to obey a lawful order.”
The Times, 16th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication
Lawyers in Basra death case win access to files – The Independent
“Lawyers acting for the father of an Iraqi man beaten to death while in the custody of the British military have claimed a breakthrough which could help discover ‘what went wrong and who was responsible’.”
The Independent, 4th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Appeal on Iraqi civilian ‘torture death’ to begin – Daily Telegraph
“Five of Britain’s most senior judges will begin hearing an appeal this week that could lead to independent inquiries into the deaths of Iraqi civilians at the hands of British troops in Iraq.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
