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The Courts-Martial (Royal Navy) Rules 1997

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President and members

28.—(1) The president shall be responsible for conducting the trial in a manner befitting a court of justice and in accordance with the traditions of the Royal Navy.

(2) Members of the court, other than the judge advocate, shall sit in order of seniority.

(3) A member shall sit in the substantive rank he holds in Her Majesty’s naval forces notwithstanding that he may have been appointed to a ship in a superior rank, save that a Commodore shall sit as a Commodore and rank above all Captains and sit with other Commodores according to their seniority as Captains.

(4) If on full pay, an officer on the Retired List or Emergency List of the Royal Navy shall sit in the order in which he takes rank and command, but if he holds acting rank he shall sit in the order in which he would have taken rank and command if he had not been granted acting rank.

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