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British Soldiers Human Rights Breached Over Faulty Equipment: Des Browne To Appeal |Sky News|Politics
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Apr 11, 10:47pm
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British Soldiers' Human Rights Breached Over Faulty Equipment
From the page: "Defence Secretary Des Browne will appeal a High Court ruling that sending British soldiers out on patrol or into battle with defective equipment could amount to a breach of their human rights.
The decision by the High Court marked a groundbreaking legal defeat for the Defence Secretary and could have implications for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The judge also said that in these cases families should be entitled to legal aid and as full access as possible to military documents put before inquest hearings.
MoD lawyers had argued that it was: "impossible to afford to soldiers who were on active service outside their bases the benefits of the Human Rights Act".
But Mr Justice Collins ruled that British servicemen and women were entitled to some measure of legal protection "wherever they may be"."
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