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For links to off-site caselaw resources, visit the links page. This page contains information about the Aspals Case database. The Aspals Case Updater is one of the most comprehensive collections of legal decisions impacting the UK military system. The cases listed in the database now include important Human Rights cases from home and abroad, thought to be of interest to practitioners and researchers, together with a number of first instance cases which are not officially reported. Below is a selection of interesting cases, extracted from the more extensive database. Sensitive cases are available only in the Subscribers' Database. To meet the increasing costs of running the site it was necessary to restrict access to the full database of indexed cases and useful documents (for which a subscription is required) via the adjacent search button. While links to free resources are maintained, the BAILII.org site seldom reports military cases and some of the older decisions are now disappearing altogether from access.

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Latest Selection of Cases
Selection of Reported Cases

Name Reference 
Trewin, R-v-
Conduct Prejudicial to Good Order and Service Discipline, Battery, Disgraceful Conduct of an Indecent Kind, Legal Aid, Graduated Fee, Counsel's Fee, Fee taxation
[2023] EWHC 242 (SCCO)
16 January 2023
[BAILII]
[Case Summary Page]
Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia
Ukraine, Russia, war, jurisdiction, state responsibility, Bankovic overruled, Issa, state agents, Donetsk, Luhansk, Donbass, "Anti-Terrorist Operation", international armed conflict, territorial integrity, ECHR, European Convention on Human Rights, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, ratione materiae, ratione personae, burden of proof
(2023) (applications nos. 8019/16, 43800/14
and 28525/20)

25 January 2023
Grand Chamber
[Summary]
[Case Summary Page]
Mustafa, The Prosecutor-v-Salih Mustafa
Kosovo, Serbia, war crimes, arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture, murder, continuous psychological impact, individual criminal responsibility, Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, Albanian ethnicity, witness intimidation, victims, BIA Guerrilla unit, Zllash/Zlaš Detention Compound, protective measures, command relationship, command responsibility, Alibi, attribution, intent to kill, armed conflict, non-international armed conflict (NIAC)
[2022] KSC-BC-2020-05
16th December 2022
[Case Summary Page]
Lai, R -v-Secretary Of State For Defence
Admin, Allowances, Redress, Judicial Review
[2011] EWHC 145 (Admin)
BAILII Case
15 February 2011
[Case Summary Page]
LSA (Arnold), The Queen -and-
Terminating Ruling/Charges based on the same facts/Prosecution Appeal/Whether sequential trials for different offences on same facts necessarily oppressive or abuse of process
[2008] EWCA Crim 1034
16 May 2008
[Case Summary Page]
Cooney, R-v-; Allam, R-v- ; Wood, R-v-
Sentencing, Financial Consequences, Pension, dismissal, Specialist tribunal, sui generis, the service context, sentences of detention, loss of liberty, remission of one third,
[1999] 9801836/S2
31st March 1999
[Case Summary Page]


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