Rejected petition End public funding for law firms who hound our soldiers for profit.

British troops facing prosecution for alleged crimes have to pay their own legal costs while lawyers pursuing them get funded by the taxpayer.

Please sign the petition if you think this is wrong.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

If you would like publicly-funded investigations of these allegations to stop, you might like to sign this petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/167734

You could start a new petition calling for specific changes to be made to the rules on entitlement to legal aid, if that's what you would like to happen.

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Date submitted 23 September 2016
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