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Business question from Julian Lewis (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 9 February 2017. It occurred during Business statement and Speaker's statement on Business of the House.

This weekend, following an inquiry chaired by my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Moor View (Johnny Mercer), the Defence Sub-Committee will publish a report entitled “Who Guards the Guardians?”. It sets out in some detail the circumstances in which a poisonous charlatan such as Phil Shiner was able to abuse our system of legal aid and the provisions of human rights legislation to hounds hundreds of British soldiers who had served bravely in Iraq and done nothing wrong. May we, at the earliest opportunity, have a statement, resulting from consultations between the Ministry of Defence, the Northern Ireland Office and the Ministry of Justice, on what legislation will be introduced to ensure that nothing like that can happen to former service personnel who served in Northern Ireland?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
621 c662 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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