The Weekly Law Reports
[2002] 3 WLR 437
House of Lords
Regina v Spear and others (Consolidated Appeals)
Regina v Saunby and others (Consolidated Appeals)
(Conjoined Appeals)
[2002] UKHL 31
2002 June 11,
12,
13;
July 18
July 18
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Hutton, Lord Scott of Foscote and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Military law
— Court-martial
— Jurisdiction
— Trial in United Kingdom of offence against ordinary criminal law
— Permanent president of courts-martial sitting in district court-martial
— Whether courts-martial lacking independence or impartiality
— Whether breach of Convention rights
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 6(1)