Member

This and similar judicial decisions need a separate debate in this House, but I want to endorse the call by the noble Baroness, Lady Foster, for the Ministry of Defence—which had nine barristers at the three weeks of hearings—to seek a judicial review of the findings, which were, again, hinged to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. Doug Beattie, the former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, explained on the BBC’s “The Nolan Show” what military training requires of soldiers when lives are threatened: “to eliminate the threat”. The judge failed to take any of that into consideration.