Following the very useful briefing by the Armed Forces Implementation Team at the 2007 AGM, it has been agreed that they will keep us informed of significant events as they arise. Briefing notes will be added here as received.
Note 1 (December 2007):
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM ON ALIGNED COURT MARTIAL RULES 2007
Court-Martial (Army) Rules 2007 Order No: 3442
Court-Martial (RN) Rules 2007 Order No: 3443
Court-Martial (RAF) Rules 2007 Order No: 3444
Note 2 (February 2008)
MOD briefing for Defence Advocates on 31 January 2008
The Powerpoint presentation and script for this event has been made available to us for downloading here.
For the non-technicals: Click the link above and save the file to your computer. Open Powerpoint, then open the downloaded file. You will then be able to see the presentation slides and the accompanying script below it. If you just click on the link, you will probably only get the slide show.
Note 3 (7 October 2008)
Delay in implementing AFA 2006
There is a delay in implementing the start date of the Act until October 2009. It has been announced that the Director of Service Prosecutions (DSP) will be enabled to bring prosecutions under the existing acts from 1 Jan 09.
Note 4 (7 August 2009)
Manual Of Service Law
The training version of the new Manual of Service Law (MSL) has kindly been made available to us by the Implementation Team. The 2 volumes and the covering letter are available here: