The Ministry of Defence has announced a package of reforms to the Armed Forces justice system, designed to give victims of serious and sexual crime stronger protections, clearer routes to support, and better confidence that prosecution outcomes will track civilian benchmarks. The reforms respond to long-standing recommendations from the Wigston Review, the Lyons Review and the Atherton inquiry into the experiences of women in the Armed Forces. Together, those reviews catalogued a Service-justice system in which victims of serious offences too often experienced poorer outcomes than peers in the civilian justice system, with downstream consequences for retention, morale and the…
