Sentences with phrase «alleged ill treatment»
He has recently been involved in the first «war crimes» Court Martial arising out of the alleged ill treatment of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers in Basra.
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Shaker has also alleged that he's suffered torture and other ill - treatment during his long years at Guantánamo.
This year, the Crown Prosecution Service announced police had launched an investigation into the «alleged rendition and alleged ill - treatment» of Bouchar and Belhaj, and a second operation in which a Libyan family of six were flown to one of Gaddafi's prisons.
The Secretary of State urged the court to consider whether it was necessary or proportionate to require such expenditure and effort when there are already two expensive public inquires looking into related aspects of alleged ill - treatment by British Forces in Iraq.
Whether in the case of such ill - treatment any positive obligation is confined to a requirement to put in place the necessary structure to enable such investigation to be conducted but does not extend to the conduct of an individual investigation into a particular alleged crime.
But I see no reason why English law should refrain from scrutinising their conduct in the course of adjudicating upon claims against other parties involved who enjoy no such immunity here, where the alleged conduct involves almost indefinite detention, combined with deprivation of any form of access to justice and, for good measure, torture or persistent ill - treatment of an individual»
The decision in Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD & Anor [2018] UKSC 11 confirms that the police can be liable in proceedings for a breach of ECHR, art 3's prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment (and possibly art 4's prohibition on slavery) where they fail to perform an adequate criminal investigation into alleged serious ill - treatment.
This appeal considered whether there is an obligation under the Human Rights Act 1998, s 6, read with ECHR, art 3, to investigate ill - treatment which has been perpetrated by a private individual without any complicity of a public authority, and / or whether in the case of such ill - treatment any positive obligation is confined to a requirement to put in place the necessary structure to enable such investigation to be conducted but does not extend to the conduct of an individual investigation into a particular alleged crime.