The WLR Daily case summaries
[2010] WLR (D) 165
HUMAN RIGHTS— Right to life— State’s duty to investigate death— Jurisdiction — Soldier dying of heatstroke while carrying out duties off base in Iraq— Whether soldier’s death 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) (cmd 8969), art 1