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Calendar
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The Aspals Events Diary
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Important Events in the Legal Calendar, conferences etc
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Cases
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Relevant Decisions
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Decisions of the Court-Martial Appeal Court, Supreme Court and House of Lords and, if possible, first instance. Contributions welcomed.
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Consultancy
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The Aspals Consultancy
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Support over a wide range of military legal, operational planning, and more general matters. Find out more about what is available on this page.
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Court-Martial System - Changes
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History
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The background to the changes, the abolition of the convening officer, the creation of the independent Army Prosecuting Authority, the Summary Appeal Court, custody hearings, greater role for judges advocate, unduly lenient sentences, membership of courts-martial, wasted costs etc.
Useful publications for practitioners.
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Court-Martial System - Further Changes (1)
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Armed Forces Discipline Act 2000
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Introduced changes to the summary dealing process, including bail and the right to appeal the CO's finding and/or award to a compliant tribunal
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Court-Martial System - Further Changes (2)
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Armed Forces Act 2001
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Details of the provisions that are in force, with links to relevant SIs. This is an important piece of legislation and introduces, among other things, powers of stop and search and entry search and seizure, wasted costs, appeal against unduly lenient sentences.
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Court-Martial System - Further Changes (3)
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Armed Forces Act 2006
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This legislation effected major change to the three services' disciplinary and administrative systems by "harmonising" them. There is now one body of law for offences and a new system for dealing with redress of individual grievances. It is a most significant piece of legislation. The link leads to the explanatory notes to the Act.
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Court-Martial System - Further Changes (4)
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Armed Forces Act 2011
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Legislation introducing the Armed Forces Covenant and some minor changes to the 2006 Act.
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Court-Martial System - Further Changes (5)
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Armed Forces Act 2016
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Minor changes to the 2006 Act, eg dealing with DSPA charging and alcohol and drugs tests.
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Court-Martial System - Further Changes (6)
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Armed Forces Act 2021
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Changes to the Constitution of the Court Martial; appointment of Circuit judges to sit as judge advocates; power for CO and the SAC to rectify mistakes; power of commanding officer to award service detention to RM Corporals; Concurrent Jurisdiction; Driving disqualification Order ...
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Court-Martial System - Military Trial
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What Happens
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Layout of the court, dress before, how to address the judge advocate.
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Court-Martial System -Types of Military Court
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The Three Main Types
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Explanations of the three main types of military court (the court-martial; Summary Appeal Court and the Standing Civilian Court) composition and applicable rules.
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Court Martial News
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Updates Page
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Latest News about the functioning of the Court Martial; JAG policy
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Aspals FAQ
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Links Index
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Index
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Group Headings of Links on this page, as detailed below
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Military
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Both Legal and Non-Legal Links
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UK Courts-Martial
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Changes Made. Summary of Procedures before. Pointers and links for practitioners.
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Types of Military Court
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Descriptions of the General Court-Martial; District Court-Martial; Summary Appeal Court and Standing Civilian Court. Useful advice for defence practitioners.
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International
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Both Military and Non-Military Legal Links, including Human Rights and Geneva Law materials.
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Non-UK Domestic
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A few links of general interest.
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UK Legal Domestic Links
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Lawyer search tools, judgments published on the web, links to legal publishers and other sites of interest.
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Operational
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Links to Op Law texts (including Geneva conventions)
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Other Useful Links
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Some for amusement
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Next Assignment
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Vacancies for ex-Military Lawyers
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Quick Links
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Quick reference for Courts-Martial Practitioners
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Faq
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Our frequently asked questions
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Search
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Multiple search options: site search; case database search; publication search and internet search
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Military Justice Handbook
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Options
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A practical and very readable guide to the Service Justice System. Ideal for court martial practitioners, commanding officers and law students
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Military News
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Latest news
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What is happening in the military legal world
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News Page
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The Press
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Latest stories from the press and media, updated regularly
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Quicklinks
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Practitioner Links
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Links for the Court-Martial Practitioner, from access to the Manual of Service Law to the key legislation, Sentencing Guides and other important documents.
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Reading List
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Aspals List
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A list of interesting articles relating to international and military legal matters
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Search the
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4 search options offering a comprehensive internal site search; a case database search of all case summaries; a publications search; and an internet search from a choice of 4 search engines.
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Sounding Board - Discontinued
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Archive
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Older Sounding Board Queries and comments may be found here. The archive will be removed in the event of shortage of web space.
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War Crimes
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1 QLR
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The prosecutions resulting from the death of Baha Musa and the infliction of injury on other Iraqi prisoners in QLR custody with him.
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1 RRF
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The first trials of British soldiers for abuse of Iraqi prisoners and the only ones to result in convictions.
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Marines 'A', 'B', and 'C'
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Captured Taliban fighter, murdered in Afghanistan by Marine 'A'.
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Wheelhouse and Leader
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Captured suspected Taliban fighter, Mohammad Ekhlas, struck with rigid rubber boot.
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YouTube Channel
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Multi-Media
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A selection of multi-media files on inter alia deception and other topics of interest
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