Keyu and others v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Secretary of State for Defence – WLR Daily

Posted September 7th, 2012 in human rights, inquiries, law reports, ministers' powers and duties by tracey

Keyu and others v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Secretary of State for Defence: [2012] EWHC 2445(Admin) ;   [2012] WLR (D)  261

“There was no duty under article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on the Secretary of State to conduct an inquiry into deaths occurring before the Convention was adopted and the United Kingdom acceded to the Convention. Likewise because there was no common law right to an inquiry no duty arose under customary international humanitarian law.”

WLR Daily, 4th September 2012

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