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Army: Advice of Attorney-General

My Lords, I apologise to the noble and learned Lord and am grateful to him for giving way. We do not dispute the noble and learned Lord’s interpretation of the case of R v Boyd. That case referred to a situation where proceedings were initiated. The case of Trooper Williams is quite different. In the course of a proceeding that was already initiated, the noble and learned Lord gave advice in his supervisory role, or decided—I think ““decided”” was the word that he had used in an earlier statement of what happened—that that case should be transferred from the military to the civilian jurisdiction. That is an entirely different situation.