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Armed Forces: Chain of Command

My Lords, I am obliged. On 31 March, the DALS wrote to the Attorney-General requesting in that letter a reference on whether to institute proceedings for murder or manslaughter. In that letter no reference whatever was made to the extraneous reason. All that there was was a series of prejudicial allegations of no evidential value as already found by two commanding officers and by the trial judge. I am making no suggestion that the Attorney-General was ever aware of the true reason why they sought his concurrent jurisdiction. I am obliged to the House. I beg to move for Papers.