R (Al-Saadoon and another ) v Secretary of State for Defence – WLR Daily

Posted January 26th, 2009 in detention, human rights, Iraq, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

R (Al-Saadoon and another ) v Secretary of State for Defence; [2009] WLR (D) 17

Iraqi detainees held in a UK internment facility in Iraq on the authority of the local criminal court were not under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom for the purposes of art 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

WLR Daily, 23rd January 2009

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