Soldiers falsely accused of war crimes and other wrongdoing in foreign conflicts should get financial compensation once cleared, a former head of the British army has said. Richard Dannatt said that “wholesale, fallacious accusations” were damaging soldiers’ morale and the fighting ability of British forces worried they may face future prosecution. “The issue of those legal firms that are trying to impugn the name of our armed forces. We have already taken action to deal with that and we are looking at seeing what we can do and I am hoping we will be able to announce some further steps in the next few days. “We have taken action and we are looking at the whole issue of the ‘no win, no fee’ firms who are trying to create this industry of making claims against our armed forces.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2016 23:03 UTC