04 May 2020 [2020] NICA 26, CA (NI)
15 Dec 2021 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given
18 Oct 2023 [2023] UKSC 36; [2025] AC 235; [2023] 3 WLR 671; [2024] 1 All ER 557, SC(E) (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
[2023] UKSC 36; [2025] AC 235; [2023] 3 WLR 671; [2024] 1 All ER 557, SC(E)
In re Dalton [2020] NICA 26, CA (NI)
Decision of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland reversed
In re Dalton [2023] UKSC 36; [2025] AC 235; [2023] 3 WLR 671; [2024] 1 All ER 557, SC(E)
UK Human Rights Blog
The mirror crack’d from side to side: Dalton’s application for judicial review
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