The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 2 WLR 195
Court of Appeal
Regina (Gentle and another) v Prime Minister and others
[2006] EWCA Civ 1689
2006 Nov 6,
7,
8;
Dec 12
Dec 12
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Sir Igor Judge P and Dyson LJJ
Human rights
— Right to life
— State's duty to investigate death
— Servicemen killed in Iraq during invasion by United Kingdom forces
— Whether Convention obligation to protect right to life requiring independent inquiry into decision as to lawfulness of invasion of Iraq
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 2