{"id":136572,"date":"2020-03-18T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/18\/bill-sets-five-year-limit-to-prosecute-uk-armed-forces-who-served-abroad\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:01:09","slug":"bill-sets-five-year-limit-to-prosecute-uk-armed-forces-who-served-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136572","title":{"rendered":"Bill sets five-year limit to prosecute UK armed forces who served abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to stop \u2018vexatious\u2019 claims excludes alleged crimes by military personnel in Northern IrelandA five-year time limit on bringing prosecutions against soldiers and veterans who have served abroad \u2013 except in \u201cexceptional circumstances\u201d \u2013 is to be imposed under legislation introduced by the government.Clauses in the overseas operations (service personnel and veterans) bill would protect serving and former military personnel from what the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, claimed was a \u201cvexatious\u201d cycle of claims and re-investigations. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/mar\/18\/bill-sets-five-year-limit-to-sue-uk-military-veterans-who-served-abroad\" target=\"_blank\">Bill sets five-year limit to prosecute UK armed forces who served abroad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to stop \u2018vexatious\u2019 claims excludes alleged crimes by military personnel in Northern IrelandA five-year time limit on bringing prosecutions against soldiers and veterans who have served abroad \u2013 except in \u201cexceptional circumstances\u201d \u2013 is to be imposed under legislation introduced by the government.Clauses in the overseas operations (service personnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}