Military Law & Lawyers

The military justice system is a generic term which covers functions such as discipline in the Australian Defence Force (ADF), administrative action to support ADF policy, inquiries to establish facts relevant to operation and command of the ADF, and the provisions for review and management of complaints.

The system is essential to ADF operational effectiveness and it complies with Commonwealth laws. Military members are subject to the same laws as apply to other Australians. The military justice system applies to all ranks. All ADF members have an interest in the success of the system.

If you have a matter involving any aspect of military law, please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

If you have suffered an injury during service, then you could be entitled to make a claim.

Types of Military Claims include:

• Military training accidents
• Military combat accidents
• Friendly fire incidents
• Inadequate/faulty equipment and machinery
• Sports injuries
• Nonfreezing cold injuries
• Hearing loss
• Road Traffic Accidents
• Chemical accidents
• Fatal accidents
• Boxing injuries
• Bullying
• Parachuting accidents
• Exposure to harmful substances, such as asbestos
• Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
• Criminal Injuries
• Accidents involving aircrafts, helicopters and motor vehicles

While our armed forces are paid to risk themselves in action, they still deserve to be protected. So if you have been injured in an military accident or through the negligence of others while serving in the forces, you could be entitled to make a military compensation claim.

If you would like to know whether you are entitled to make a military compensation claim, please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

Other Types of military compensation claims, some of which have already been referred to above, can include:

• Personal Injury compensation claims
• Personal injury on operations or on exercise
• Military accidents at work
• Military head and spinal injuries
• Medical Negligence of Armed Forces personnel
• Road traffic accidents involving Armed Forces personnel both in Australia and abroad
• Personal injury due to defective equipment
• Disease and illness contracted by military personnel in the workplace
• Military medical negligence compensation claims
• Death or injury as a result of negligent medical or dental treatment in Australia, or wherever service personnel/their families are based.
• Personal injury caused by failure to diagnose, or delays in the provision of treatment
• Personal injury caused by failure to downgrade
• Personal injury caused by a failure to take account of special circumstances

If you would like to know whether you are entitled to make a military compensation claim, please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

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