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Recommendation 27
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Paragraph: 124
Lawfare refers to the strategy using law to achieve an operational military objective.
Conclusion
Lawfare refers to the strategy using law to achieve an operational military objective. It is wholly inappropriate to use this term to refer to the application of the rule of law to determine cases where injured civilians or soldiers are seeking justice, Legislative Scrutiny: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill 53 or for example, seeking to determine the facts surrounding the death of a loved one. We wholeheartedly reject the Minister’s implication that UK courts, Armed Forces personnel, civilians and legal professionals are all part of some coordinated strategy to use the law as a substitute for traditional military measures to achieve an operational military objective—that is quite simply preposterous.
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Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 14 January 2021. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗