High Court quashes government’s refusal to proceed with Litvinenko inquiry – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted February 13th, 2014 in inquiries, judicial review, news, poisoning, public interest immunity by sally

‘This was an application by the widow of Alexander Litvinenko for judicial review of the refusal by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to order the setting up of a statutory inquiry into his death in London in November 2006. The Secretary of State had been asked to set up such an inquiry by Sir Robert Owen, the judge appointed to conduct the inquest into Mr Litvinenko’s death as Assistant Coroner.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 12th February 2014

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