Basil
19th Oct 2015, 06:05
Getting rid of the Human Rights Convention on the battlefield is a victory over terrorists and legal vultures - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11938986/Getting-rid-of-the-Human-Rights-Convention-on-the-battlefield-is-a-victory-over-terrorists-and-legal-vultures.html)
By Col Tim Collins OBE 18 Oct 2015
. . . the UK government is drawing up plans to suspend the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on the battlefield. It’s about time. The UK, having made possible the liberation of Europe by standing firm against the Nazi tsunami and then spent its treasure and the blood of our young people in liberating Europe, sought to create a charter that prevented the same abuse against which we had fought. It was made more urgent by the fact that the majority of European nations, . . . also had no small hand in collaborating with the perpetrators.
what was supposed to be a protection for the vulnerable has been used by unscrupulous lawyers to line their pockets in spurious inquiries that have cost millions
The collapse of the Al Sweady inquiry last year was the high tide of abuse of the UK’s legal system when a bunch of now discredited lawyers recruited any Iraqis who would volunteer to claim abuse by UK soldiers. Many, many applied. Millions were spent. Public Interest Lawyers alone gobbled up £90million.
The case was thrown out as a pack of lies (except for the comical findings that the detainees weren’t fed properly, didn’t get enough sleep, were shouted at and were on occasion afraid. Which ironically is exactly what infantry soldiers experience on every single operational deployment).
Sir Thayne Forbes, the former High Court judge who chaired the inquiry, found that the men allegedly mistreated were not innocent farmers, as they claimed, but enemy fighters . . (That last bit makes me laugh out loud)
By Col Tim Collins OBE 18 Oct 2015
. . . the UK government is drawing up plans to suspend the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on the battlefield. It’s about time. The UK, having made possible the liberation of Europe by standing firm against the Nazi tsunami and then spent its treasure and the blood of our young people in liberating Europe, sought to create a charter that prevented the same abuse against which we had fought. It was made more urgent by the fact that the majority of European nations, . . . also had no small hand in collaborating with the perpetrators.
what was supposed to be a protection for the vulnerable has been used by unscrupulous lawyers to line their pockets in spurious inquiries that have cost millions
The collapse of the Al Sweady inquiry last year was the high tide of abuse of the UK’s legal system when a bunch of now discredited lawyers recruited any Iraqis who would volunteer to claim abuse by UK soldiers. Many, many applied. Millions were spent. Public Interest Lawyers alone gobbled up £90million.
The case was thrown out as a pack of lies (except for the comical findings that the detainees weren’t fed properly, didn’t get enough sleep, were shouted at and were on occasion afraid. Which ironically is exactly what infantry soldiers experience on every single operational deployment).
Sir Thayne Forbes, the former High Court judge who chaired the inquiry, found that the men allegedly mistreated were not innocent farmers, as they claimed, but enemy fighters . . (That last bit makes me laugh out loud)