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UK Supreme Court rules no human rights protections for soldiers abroad

By Sarah Miley

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[JURIST] The UK Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF; press summary, PDF] Wednesday that the 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) texts] into English law, does not apply to armed forces on foreign soil and that a soldier's family does not have an automatic right to an investigation into cause of death in the battlefield. The case involved Private Jason Smith, who died of heat stroke in Iraq after making several complaints to hi read more

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