The European Court of Human Rights found that the British Government had violated Article 2 of the ECHR (the right to life article) in a number of controversial lethal force cases in the North of Ireland.
Alan Brecknell, Press Release on behalf of Madden & Finucane Solicitors | 01 May 2002
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today gave judgment in favour of the families of eight men who were murdered by a Loyalist murder gang in the South Armagh area in the mid 1970’s. The cases were taken to Strasbourg following the failure of the British Government to properly...