§ Mr. JenkinTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the financial consequences of the Lewis ECHR case. [57642]
§ Mr. Ingram[holding answer 20 May 2002]: I assume that the question concerns a case before the European Court of Human Rights, but we do not immediately recognise a Lewis case. I answered a question from the hon. Member on 1 March about that court's judgment in the case of Mr. Morris, Official Report, column 1624W, and it may be this to which he is now referring.
Hitherto there have been no quantifiable financial consequences for the Ministry of Defence as a result of this case, apart from legal fees and the award by the court of a proportion of Mr. Morris's costs.