The WLR Daily case summaries
[2009] WLR (D) 158
HUMAN RIGHTS — Soldier dying of heatstroke whilst carrying out duties off base in Iraq — Whether British soldier on military service in Iraq subject to jurisdiction of United Kingdom — Whether death of soldier within scope of Human Rights Convention or of legislation giving domestic effect to Convention — Whether procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life applying to inquest into soldier’s death — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2— Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 1