R (L) v Secretary of State for Justice (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted November 28th, 2008 in human rights, inquiries, law reports, prisons by sally

R (L) v Secretary of State for Justice (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2008] UKHL 68; [2008] WLR (D) 368

Where a prisoner attempted to commit suicide and sustained incapacitating long-term injury the state was obliged to institute an independent initial investigation which complied with art 2 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998.”

WLR Daily, 27th November 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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