17th Report - Drawing a line: Protecting veterans by a Statute of Limitations
- HC No.
- HC 1224
- Published
- 22 Jul 2019
- Items
- 0
- Response
- No response document linked
Select Committee · Defence Committee
Statute of limitations – veterans protection inquiry
Status: Closed
Opened: 12 Jun 2018
Closed: 12 Jun 2018
1 report
Inquiry scope
The Committee welcomes recent Government suggestions that it will adopt a ‘presumption against prosecution’ for alleged offences in operations overseas more than ten years ago, in the absence of compelling new evidence, and that – in future conflicts – it will derogate from parts of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Government response published Read the Government response (PDF 511KB) Read the Government response Committee investigation into the question of how former service personnel can be protected from the spectre of investigation and re-investigation for events that happened many years, and often decades, earlier.Reports
Oral evidence sessions
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