The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2025] AC 235
Supreme Court
In re
Dalton
[2023] UKSC 36
2022 Oct 26, 27; 2023 Oct 18
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lady Rose JJSC, Dame Siobhan Keegan
Human rights— Life— State’s duty to investigate death— Applicant’s father killed by bomb in 1988— Police investigation not leading to bringing of charges— Investigation by police ombudsman in 2013 finding failings by police— Request for fresh investigation into death— Whether Convention right as enacted in domestic law imposing procedural duty on state to investigate death— Whether procedural duty capable of arising where death occurring more than ten years before enactment of Convention rights into domestic law—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 2