ECHR Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction). The court considered the duties of a signatory state under article 2 when taking substantial military actions against insurgents.
Citations:
57949/00, [2005] ECHR 129, 57947/00, 57948/00, (2005) 41 EHRR 39
Links:
Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights 2
Jurisdiction:
Human Rights
Cited by:
Cited – Smith, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Defence and Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) SC 30-Jun-2010
The deceased soldier died of heat exhaustion whilst on active service in Iraq. It was said that he was owed a duty under human rights laws, and that any coroner’s inquest should be a fuller one to satisfy the state’s duty under Article 2.
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Human Rights, Armed Forces
Updated: 01 July 2022; Ref: scu.227547
