The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 2 WLR 1
Court of Appeal
Regina (Reprieve and others)
v
Prime Minister
[2021] EWCA Civ 972
2021 April 28; June 30
Lord Burnett of Maldon CJ, Stuart-Smith, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Human rights— Fair trial— Determination of civil rights and obligations— Human rights organisation and MPs claiming judicial review of Prime Minister’s decision not to hold public inquiry into allegations of state complicity in torture and rendition— Grounds of claim that decision in breach of Convention rights and irrational— Prime Minister relying on material relating to national security— Whether claimants entitled to disclosure of such material— Whether claimants entitled to rely on alleged breach of Convention right— Whether claimants “victims” of breach of Convention right— Whether claim determining civil rights and obligations so as to engage right to fair trial—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), ss 6, 7, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 6
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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, art 34
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