The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 2 WLR 1124
House of Lords
N
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department (Terrence Higgins Trust intervening)
[2005] UKHL 31
2005 Feb 23,
24;
May 5
May 5
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Immigration
— Asylum
— Inhuman and degrading treatment
— Seriously ill illegal immigrant receiving beneficial medical treatment in United Kingdom for five years
— Application for asylum refused
— Planned removal to country with inferior medical resources where life expectancy would be drastically reduced
— Whether inhuman and degrading treatment
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 3