Directorate of Army Legal Services
By Captain Matthew Gosnell
As the demands on the British Army and wider Defence have accelerated and evolved over the last 12 months, so have the legal challenges, with ALS officers across the organisation rising to meet them both at home and abroad.
Recognition Hard work was reflected in a bounty of formal recognition. The Director, Major General Alex Taylor was appointed to the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath as Companion (CB); and Lieutenant Colonel Chris Adair, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Franca, Major Gaby Sleeman, Marie Horton, Major Kirsty Matthews, Major Les Campbell and Maj Charlie Coventry all received Commendations at 3* Level and above.
HQ Legal Advisory Legal support has been integral to the work of Service Justice Executive Group projects, such as on enhancements to Victim and Witness Care, flowing from reviews of the Service Justice System.
In the tri-Service sphere, there has been extensive ALS input to the MOD Policies on Zero Tolerance to Unacceptable Sexual Behaviour and Sexual Relationships, and on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and into consequential development of Army administrative and discipline policies.
Legal advice has been indispensable in relation to major developments in Workforce Policy and in the enhancement of the Diversity and Inclusion landscape. Legal review has contributed to initiatives like Lateral Entry recruitment, Project CASTLE on modernising careers and maximising talent, and the communication of the Army’s Public Sector Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010.
ALS officers take part in a Battlefield Study of the 1943 Allied invasion of Italy. UK STRATCOM
Chief Legal Adviser at HQ StratCom, Col Jo Bowen has been thriving on the Top Flight programme and passing on some of the benefit to female officers through her work with the ALS Women’s Network.
In Cyprus, Major Paul Markham attended the Proclamation Ceremony on 11 Sep 22 to ‘publish and proclaim’ Charles the Third as King, the ceremony taking place in all the British Overseas Territories one day after Proclamation in London. Earlier in the year, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Halward and Major Markham joined AGC personnel from across the island to celebrate the Corps’ 30th anniversary, joined by the Corps Colonel and Sergeant Major.
The Defence Academy The Defence Academy has welcomed Lieutenant Colonel Felicity Bryson, Major Steve Warburton and Major Jo Shipley on ACSC and ICSC(L) respectively. Lieutenant Colonel Toby Hamnett provided some thought-provoking legal lectures as DS on ICSC, ensuring that human security angles were integrated into the international security studies and strategy modules, challenging the intake with current legal thinking and refreshing existing legal knowhow.
Home Command
Tri-service and civilian participants from the SPA at the Advanced Advocacy Course, Keble College, Oxford (L to R): Maj Jamie Eveleigh, Capt Jack Hook, Lt (RN) Jamie Brotherton, Mr Rupert Gregory, Capt (RN) James Farrant, Capt Lawlor, Col Grant Davies, Flt Lt Charlotte Adams.
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Following a busy period marked by officers’ absence on deployment, Colonel Penny Davies, Lieutenant Colonel Alan Nurse and Major Neil Keery were fortunate to participate in the HC/SJC(UK) battlefield study to Monte Cassino. The busy one-week tour opened at Salerno with an examination of the Allied landings in 1943, moved on to study the fierce fighting
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