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In re McCaughey and Another (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Others Intervening)

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doi:10.1017/cbo9781139568227.005
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2013
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Documentary abstract — original language

192 Relationship of international law and municipal law — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Incorporation into domestic law by Human Rights Act 1998 — Human Rights Act 1998 entering into force on 2 October 2000 — Application — Interpretation — European Court of Human Rights — Temporal jurisdiction — Grand Chamber decision of European Court of Human Rights — Šilih — Meaning — Nature of obligations imposed by Article 2 of European Convention — Substantive and procedural obligations — Procedural obligation requiring State to carry out effective official investigation into circumstances of death — Procedural obligation detachable from substantive obligation — Effect of Šilih decision on domestic law — Previous House of Lords decision in McKerr inconsistent with Šilih decision — Whether McKerr binding — Deaths occurring before commencement of Human Rights Act 1998 — Substantive obligation having no application in domestic law — Scope of inquests — Whether inquests into deaths to comply with procedural obligation under Article 2 of Convention — Whether breach of claimants’ Article 2 rights under Human Rights Act 1998 Human rights — Right to life — Article 2 of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Nature of obligations — Decision of European Court of Human Rights in Šilih — Procedural obligation to investigate deaths detachable from substantive obligation — Procedural obligation requiring State to carry out effective official investigation into circumstances of death — Human Rights Act 1998 incorporating Convention into domestic law — Human Rights Act 1998 commencing 2 October 2000 — Deaths occurring before commencement of Act — Scope of inquest into deaths — Whether inquests into deaths to comply with procedural obligation under Article 2 of Convention — The law of Northern Ireland

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W2487791121
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10.1017/cbo9781139568227.005

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In re McCaughey and Another (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Others Intervening). 2013. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139568227.005

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(2013). In re McCaughey and Another (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Others Intervening). https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139568227.005
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In re McCaughey and Another (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Others Intervening). 2013. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139568227.005
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In re McCaughey and Another (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Others Intervening). 2013. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139568227.005

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