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Article: Defective military equipment 'is a breach of human rights'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2008
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The Government suffered a landmark legal defeat yesterday when a
High Court judge ruled that sending soldiers to war with defective
equipment could be a breach of their human rights. Mr Justice
Collins dismissed the Ministry of Defence argument that it was
"impossible" to extend the tenets of the Human Rights Act to troops
on active duty. His decision is likely to have significant
implications on operations in Iraq and Af-ghanistan and pave the way
for legal action by bereaved families of soldiers.
In a second embarrassing reverse for Des Browne, the Defence
Secretary , the judge also turned down his request to restrict
critical comments by coroners, such as "serious failures", which had ...
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