“If the United Kingdom chose to hold an inquest into a death resulting from acts by agents of the state which occurred before the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, that inquest had to comply with the procedural obligations of article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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