What your role could involve.
As an organisation employing over thirty-thousand personnel, operating aircraft and airfields, in the UK and overseas, in peacetime and armed conflict, the RAF undertakes a breadth of activities that require the provision of dedicated legal support. The activities of the RAF and its personnel are governed by domestic and international law as well as laws specific to the military. Legal Officers play a central role ensuring the RAF operates effectively within these legal frameworks across the breadth of its activities.
Your responsibilities could include:
• Advising military commanders and staff in national, coalition and Allied environments on domestic and international humanitarian law.
• Advising on military law, air law, employment law, European law, health and safety and environmental law Development and drafting of legislation in relation to the Armed Forces.
• Acting as Legal Adviser to Service Inquiry panels in relation to their investigations.
• Advocacy for the defence or prosecution at Courts Martial, Service Civilian Courts and Summary Appeal Courts.
• Advising both military police and commanders in relation to criminal investigations, evidence gathering, interviewing, and pre and post charge custody,
• Advising personnel of all ranks on the Armed Forces Act 2006 and procedures and regulations that apply to the RAF and wider Defence.
• Providing legal training across the full breadth of ranks and specialisations of the RAF.
Like most officers in the RAF, you will move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. You could receive your first overseas move, or‘ posting’, immediately after your Initial Officer Training and specialist training. Overseas postings normally last between two and three years.
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